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Enigmatic Tongues of Oceanic Antiquity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Constraints governing permissible sound arrangements in extinct Oceanic tongues
  • 2. Cook Island Maori lost term for ancestral chant formulas
  • 3. Language family including extinct dialects once spoken in Tonga
  • 4. Undeciphered Easter Island script with mysterious glyphs
  • 5. Red herring; a tropical fish but also a Polynesian homophone hinting lost culinary vocabulary
  • 7. A critical discourse on lost Mango Islands' dialects and their phonemes
  • 10. Physical remnants often preserving lost Oceanic languages’ iconography
  • 12. Fictitious archaic Polynesian lexeme symbolizing forgotten oceanic lexicon
  • 13. Adjective for specialized priestly scripts applied metaphorically to Oceanic sacred texts
  • 15. Relating to knowledge, especially about reconstructing vanished linguistic traditions
  • 16. Global sea-level changes impacting Oceanic island cultures and language extinction
Down
  • 6. Study of ancient Oceanic writing systems and their syntax
  • 8. Relating to the linguistically diverse peoples of Papua, adjacent to Oceanic linguistic history
  • 9. Papery barkcloth often inscribed with Polynesian symbols
  • 11. Extinct Tongan island dialect, known only from colonial notes
  • 14. Hypothetical name evoking vanished Polynesian dialects preserving ritual lexicon
  • 17. Imaginary extinct Oceanic language named for a legendary forgotten isle

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