Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Esoteric Tongues and Lost Lexicons
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Jurchen dynasty’s language written in logograms and phonetics
- 2. Language from an Iron Age kingdom near Lake Van’s shores
- 4. Indo-European dialect east of the Pamirs, linking East and West
- 5. Pre-Roman tongue of ancient Italy, indeciphered yet pivotal
- 6. Extinct East Germanic language immortalized by Bishop Ulfilas
- 7. Silk Road dialect that mediated East-West commerce and culture
- 8. Maritime Semitic dialect, progenitor of modern alphabets
- 15. Ancient Anatolian tongue preserved in hieroglyphic inscriptions
Down
- 3. Extinct language of ancient Iran, predating Persian dominion
- 9. Enigmatic dialect of ancient Scottish tribes, largely untranslated
- 10. Celtic speech once spoken across what’s now France and Belgium
- 11. Baltic tongue wiped out after Teutonic crusades and assimilation
- 12. Semitic language of Babylonian empires, written in cuneiform
- 13. Script and language from Nubian kingdom, still undeciphered fully
- 14. Ancient Mycenaean script cracked by Alice Kober and Ventris
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