Enigmatic Scripts Along the Silk Road
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Across
- 1. Rare script from the fringes of Dunhuang caves
- 2. Hypothetical cryptic tongue found in manuscripts
- 3. Gnostic sect's script melding Aramaic influences
- 4. Obscure dialect linked to merchant settlements
- 6. Indo-European tongues lost in Tarim's sands
- 7. Saka tongue preserved in Buddhist monasteries
- 8. Prakrit language inscribed on Buddhist relics
- 12. Merchant language of Central Asian caravans
- 13. Complex logograms of western Xia dynasty
- 16. Extinct Northwest Caucasian tongue, complex phonemes
Down
- 5. Semitic script from desert oasis crossroads
- 9. Early Islamic script variant crossing Silk Road
- 10. Ancient Brahmi-derived script westward adapted
- 11. Region that birthed dialects fading from memory
- 14. Imperial script of ancient Parthian scribes
- 15. Lost dialect mingling Iranian and Turkic notes
- 17. Script employed by steppes nomads eastward
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