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Echoes of Vanished European Tongues
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- 1. Obsolete Euro dialect that merged into American Pennsylvania Dutch.
- 2. Celtic tongue displaced on the continent but preserved on the peninsula.
- 3. Classical lingua franca underpinning medieval ecclesiastical discourse.
- 4. Baltic linguistic relic suppressed under Teutonic Order.
- 5. Obsolete medieval Romance tongue from northwestern Iberian Peninsula.
- 7. Wulfila’s script, cradle of earliest Germanic Bible translation.
- 8. Pre-Roman Iberian speech, forerunner of Portuguese ethnolect.
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- 6. Romance language extinct by early 20th century, Adriatic coastal relic.
- 9. Ancient Thracian dialect, lost to Macedonian Hellenization.
- 10. Primitive Slavic dialect, lingual ancestor to modern Sorbian.
- 11. North Sea Germanic idiom, dialectally fractured and archaic.
- 12. Gaelic vernacular reborn after centuries’ extinction on Irish Sea isle.
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