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Esoteric Scripts and Constructed Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. System of names, crucial in categorizing invented linguistic elements
  • 2. Imaginary term blending carving and language, hinting at symbolic script
  • 3. Secretive or coded artificial language devised for puzzles
  • 4. Study of minimal script units, essential to deciphering alien alphabets
  • 5. Semitic script type with consonant-only letters (5-letter word, allowed common abbreviation)
  • 8. Minimal iconic units combining visual and phonetic aspects in conlangs
  • 12. Philosophical form or essence, useful to conceptual language design
Down
  • 6. Script type mixing alphabetic and syllabic symbols for cryptic conlangs
  • 7. Branch analyzing internal structure of words in an invented vocabulary
  • 9. Rules governing allowable sound sequences in an artificial language
  • 10. Meaning behind encrypted words crafted in conlang puzzles
  • 11. Varied arrangements of clauses in bespoke puzzle tongues
  • 13. Dictionary core for an elaborate fabricated tongue

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