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Enigmatic Tongues of Isolated Isles
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Ancient Celtic script carved in stone, named after a tree alphabet
  • 2. Old Hebridean term, possibly a lost place-name language segment
  • 3. Ancient Iberian Celtic idiom, sometimes linked to mysterious island trade scripts
  • 5. Iron Age stone structures linked to Norse settlers, possible epic language source
  • 7. Ancient Gaelic kingdom, birthplace of now-vanished dialects in western isles
  • 10. Extinct North Germanic tongue once dominant in Shetland and Orkney
  • 13. Mediterranean language found inscribed on Isles’ trading artifacts, Phoenician-derived
Down
  • 4. Phonetic process crucial in archaic Isles tongues affecting consonant articulation
  • 6. Old name for Scotland, referenced in lost Pictish dialects
  • 8. Early wedge-shaped script, metaphorically used for deciphering island glyphs
  • 9. Latin root meaning languages, often used in linguistic taxonomy of isle tongues
  • 11. Hypothetical extinct language once theorized to exist in the Scottish isles
  • 12. Rare Welsh word linked to ancient inscriptions on island relics
  • 14. Mythical reference to extreme northern isles, linked to sagas in lost dialects

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