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Enigmatic Scripts and Lost Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Extinct Semitic language from a Bronze Age city-state
  • 2. Wedge-shaped ancient script of Mesopotamian scribes
  • 4. Hypothetical ancestor of hundreds of African languages
  • 6. East Germanic tongue preserved in bishop Ulfilas' Bible
  • 8. Mysterious language of ancient southwestern Iran, lost to history
Down
  • 3. Scheme underpinning classification, named for a Swedish savant (hidden language of taxonomy)
  • 5. Undeciphered Easter Island glyphs defying full translation
  • 7. Priestly shorthand of ancient Nile inscriptions
  • 9. Moribund Semitic dialect once spoken near Lake Van

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