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Esoteric Island Dialects and Linguistic Curiosities
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Across
- 1. Sea-island creole language blending African lexicon and English syntax
- 2. Clue embedded: capital near linguistic crossroads but here a homophone trap for local island jargon
- 3. Sculpted from 18th-century English and Tahitian, a dialect of isolated islanders
- 4. Revived Goidelic tongue of Isle with a Celtic literary renaissance
- 5. North Atlantic Germanic dialect preserving Old Norse phonology
- 8. Extinct North Atlantic pidgin with heavy Old Norse substrate on remote isle
Down
- 6. Creolized lingua franca fusing Dutch, English, Portuguese, and African roots
- 7. Polynesian microlanguage isolating vowel harmony in South Pacific atoll
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