CrosswordMint
Esoteric Tongues of Bygone Eras
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Across
  • 1. Baltic tongue extinguished by Teutonic expansion and assimilation
  • 2. Sporadic Aegean dialect known from fragmentary funerary inscriptions
  • 3. Pharaonic-era Kushite language still partly enigmatic
  • 4. Maritime script-bearing language that birthed the Hebrew alphabet
  • 6. Old Italic dialect with inscriptions predating Latin hegemony
  • 9. Ancient Iranian plateau language undeciphered in full
  • 12. Semitic tongue of ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets
  • 13. Northern Adriatic Italic dialect erased by Roman assimilation
  • 16. Syllabic script recording Mycenaean Greek, deciphered in the 20th Century
  • 17. Ancient Near Eastern language spoken by Hattian neighbors
Down
  • 5. Carthaginian dialect surviving in obscurity after Roman conquest
  • 7. Celtic language variant that once echoed on Scottish highlands
  • 8. Indo-European dialect in Tarim Basin manuscripts, now extinct
  • 10. Late Egyptian dialect using Greek alphabet for sacred texts
  • 11. Romance language lost in Adriatic coastal communities
  • 14. Mysterious pre-Roman language engraved on ancient tombs
  • 15. Medieval Celtic dialect documented in ancient glosses and saints’ lives
  • 18. Wulfila’s biblical translation tongue from a lost East Germanic tribe

Similar Crossword Puzzles