A crossword exploring lost and lesser-known languages once spoken along the historic Silk Road trade network.
Echoes of Silk Road Tongues
Explore the lost and ancient languages that traveled the historic Silk Road trade routes in this crossword puzzle.
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- 1. Religious tradition influencing many Silk Road scripts and languages
- 2. An extinct Indo-European language found in ancient texts from Xinjiang
- 4. Term linked to ancient burial mounds associated with early Indo-European cultures
- 8. A key Eastern Iranian language once dominant on Silk Road trade routes
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- 3. Extinct Northwest Caucasian language, possibly traded along western Silk Road routes
- 5. Language of a gnostic sect that spread along Silk Road corridors
- 6. Prakrit language used in ancient Buddhist texts from the Silk Road's western regions
- 7. Dialect spoken in the old kingdom near the southern Silk Road oasis
- 9. Classical language widely used as a cultural lingua franca on the Silk Road
- 10. Language of Buddhist scriptures influencing Silk Road spiritual exchange
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