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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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