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Enigmatic Scripts and Lost Tongues of Asia
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  • 1. Adjective related to the rare script once used in Sogdian religious texts
  • 3. Pertaining to an Indo-Aryan ruling class language embedded in Hittite texts
  • 8. Sacred Iranian tongue preserving Zoroastrian liturgical texts
  • 10. Extinct Tibeto-Burman language associated with ancient Himalayan inscriptions
  • 13. Language of a pre-Iranian civilization, preserved on clay tablets
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  • 2. Ancient language of northern Mesopotamia, predecessor to Mitanni influence
  • 4. Hurrian-influenced language of a Bronze Age kingdom in northern Mesopotamia
  • 5. Ancient script deciphered mostly from Buddhist manuscripts in northwest India
  • 6. Language tied to a gnostic sect mixing Persian and Semitic elements
  • 7. Extinct Indo-European language once spoken in Tarim Basin oasis
  • 9. Fictionalized cryptic nod to lost Sino-Tibetan dialects in historical linguistics
  • 11. Middle Iranian language traded along the Silk Road, now extinct
  • 12. Obscure script sometimes linked with Uighur or Turkic epigraphy
  • 14. Iron Age kingdom’s language found in cuneiform inscriptions near Lake Van

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