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Endangered Tongues of Amazonia's Depths
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Tupian language exhibiting rare inclusive/exclusive pronoun distinctions.
  • 2. Obscure language named after a lesser-known river basin, preserving ergative structures.
  • 4. Panoan language spoken by the 'Head of the Jaguar' people, rich in ritual vocabularies.
  • 6. Isolated tribe language famous for its complex tone and nasal harmony systems.
  • 7. A major yet dwindling language family, historically linked to pre-Columbian Caribbean contacts.
  • 12. Language of an ethnic group with intricate animistic cosmologies in Northwestern Amazon.
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  • 3. Controversial Amazonian tongue noted for its purported lack of recursion in grammar.
  • 5. Bolivian Amazonian language named after a warrior tribe, preserving archaic phonemes.
  • 8. A language isolate spoken by Amazonian river dwellers, not related to neighboring tongues.
  • 9. Language family associated with fierce headhunting groups, still spoken in Ecuador and Peru.
  • 10. A Mato Grosso language known for its elaborate evidentiality markers in conversation.
  • 11. Endangered variety spoken in the Colombian Amazon, known for polysynthetic word formation.
  • 13. Sparse Amazonian language group fragmented by colonial disruptions and dispersal.

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