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Enigmatic Scripts of Tropical Antiquity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Lost Brazilian coastal language eclipsed by Portuguese colonization
  • 4. Extinct Papuan language once spoken near Indonesia’s tropical isles
  • 6. Extinct Timucuan tongue of Florida’s southeastern tropical marshes
  • 9. Papuan jungle language with elusive click-like phonemes lost to time
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  • 2. Forgotten Amazonian tongue named for a rare tropical bird genus
  • 3. Esoteric proto-writing from Easter Island resisting full decipherment
  • 5. Mayan dialect vanished from Chiapas’ dense tropical rainforests
  • 7. Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican language with complex tonal hieroglyphics
  • 8. Obscure Central American language linked to lost rainforest kingdoms
  • 10. Deltaic indigenous language nearly erased by Caribbean tropical shifts
  • 11. Dead Macro-Jê language of Brazil’s tropical interior savannah

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