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Enigmatic Scripts and Lost Tongues
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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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