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Echoes of Vanished Oceanic Tongues
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Tahitian island with ancient Polynesian languages
- 2. Language group once oral, now has written form
- 5. Mysterious undeciphered script from Easter Island
- 6. Remote Cook Islands atoll with old Polynesian dialect
- 8. Title or lord in some Oceanic chiefdoms
- 10. Language from a phosphate-rich Micronesian isle
- 12. Ancient pottery style linked to Austronesian settlers
Down
- 3. Stone adze used by ancient Pacific islanders
- 4. Small island in Vanuatu with extinct languages
- 7. Language spoken on formerly polyglot Society Islands
- 9. Fictional script, not Oceanic — check carefully!
- 11. Common misspelling, unrelated to Oceanic languages
- 13. Maori word meaning ‘person’ or ‘human being’
- 14. Spiritual force believed to be present in objects
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