Enigmatic Scripts of Vanished Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Undeciphered proto-writing from Easter Island’s wooden tablets (10 letters)
- 5. Prefix meaning ‘after speech,’ often used in linguistics of extinct languages (9 letters)
- 7. Pertaining to carved inscriptions—critical in studying lost languages (7 letters)
- 9. Ancient writing sign marking separation, found in deciphered texts (6 letters)
Down
- 2. A phylogenetic tool used to reconstruct language families (10 letters)
- 3. Bolivian region linked to extinct Andean languages (10 letters)
- 4. Language nearly lost but revitalized among Sioux tribes (6 letters)
- 6. The scientific study of ancient inscriptions and texts (9 letters)
- 8. A hypothetical primordial language interpreter (9 letters)
- 10. A Minoan syllabary before the Greek alphabet (6 letters)
- 11. Earliest known Indo-European language inscribed on cuneiform tablets (7 letters)
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