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Enigmatic Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Obscure hieroglyphic variant found primarily on royal monuments
  • 2. Traditionally oral languages with unique click consonants’ notation
  • 3. Cryptic Slavic inscription found in Poland’s medieval era
  • 5. North African ancient script with undeciphered variants
  • 7. Complex logographic script of western Xia, extinct with culture
  • 8. Achaemenid-era inscription style named after mysterious Persian province
  • 9. Angular alphabets of Germanic tribes, often carved on stone
  • 10. Script traced to obscure Aegean island dialects and myths
  • 12. Wedge-shaped script carved by ancient scribes Babylonian style
  • 15. Mycenaean syllabary cracked by Ventris, predecessor to Greek
  • 16. Egyptian cursive script used by commoners, post-hieroglyphic
Down
  • 4. Phonetic feature prevalent in lost languages’ distinctive sounds
  • 6. Hypothetical script linked to non-Indo-European lost languages
  • 11. Mesoamerican hieroglyphs predating the Maya civilization
  • 13. Undeciphered script from Bronze Age civilization along a river
  • 14. Ancient Northwestern Indian script written right to left
  • 17. Rarely attested script linked to enigmatic Anatolian inscriptions

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