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Enigmatic Scripts of Ancient Alphabets
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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  • 1. Early medieval alphabet found mainly in Ireland
  • 2. Ancient Semitic script, ancestor to many alphabets
  • 4. Ancient wedge-shaped writing of Mesopotamia
  • 5. Simplified Egyptian script derived from hieratic
  • 6. Material often inscribed with the ancient Shang script
  • 7. Script used by Arab traders before Arabic script
  • 9. Alphabet developed for Slavic languages, now widespread
  • 11. Rare script related to a nearly extinct Finno-Ugric language
  • 13. Ancient Indian script ancestor of many modern scripts
  • 15. Script of the Maldives, derived from Arabic numerals
  • 16. A symbolic carved or inscribed character
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  • 3. South Indian script ancestor to many Southeast Asian scripts
  • 8. Script once used by Indian Jain community
  • 10. Old Slavic script predating Cyrillic
  • 12. Ancient Sudanese script with still undeciphered parts
  • 14. Alphabet of the Berber peoples of North Africa
  • 17. Two ancient Aegean scripts named A and B
  • 18. Extinct Anatolian alphabet used in ancient Turkey
  • 19. Mystical characters used by early Germanic peoples

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