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Etymological Enigmas of Ancient Scripts
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  • 1. Branch of linguistics analyzing the smallest sound units (8)
  • 2. Correct writing system that sometimes preserves ancient sounds (11)
  • 4. Art of engraving symbols, unlocking languages in stone (8)
  • 6. Wedge-shaped script carved on clay tablets of Mesopotamia (8)
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  • 3. Ancestor of many tongues, tentatively pieced together (10)
  • 5. To unravel hidden text, often a linguist’s prized skill (8)
  • 7. Stone Age era when earliest symbolic marks possibly originated (11)
  • 8. Characters that denote ideas rather than sounds, like Chinese (9)
  • 9. Study of meaning—crucial in tracing word origins (9)
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