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Enigmatic Scripts and Ancient Glyphs
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  • 1. Referencing a secret abolitionist cipher (abbreviation expanded)
  • 2. Berber script shaped by the stars, ancient and modern
  • 3. Oldest Slavic alphabet, named cryptically after its creator
  • 4. Phonetic Chinese script named after its first four syllables
  • 6. Tibeto-Burman pictographic script documented by Joseph Rock
  • 12. Sudanese language script, still partly undeciphered
  • 13. Mycenaean Greek script predecessor to classical alphabets
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  • 5. Study of ancient writing systems deciphering manuscripts
  • 7. Adjective for letter-writing form, linked to script’s content
  • 8. Classical script of Angkor with rounded intricate forms
  • 9. Literal name ‘double heaven’ for a rare ancient Chinese script
  • 10. Egyptian script blending Greek characters and Demotic signs
  • 11. Wedge-shaped writing on clay tablets, earliest known script
  • 14. Egyptian script that’s more ‘popular’ than hieratic
  • 15. Consonant-only script type common in Semitic languages
  • 16. Germanic script carved in stone with magical associations
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