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Fading Voices: Endangered Scripts & Tongues
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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  • 1. Language spoken by tribal people in parts of central India
  • 2. Sino-Tibetan language with its own script, used in Nepal and India
  • 4. An Indo-Iranian language with multiple dialects, some endangered
  • 6. A critically endangered language spoken in northeastern Portugal
  • 7. Native American language with its own distinctive syllabary
  • 8. An ancient script used across South Asia, precursor to Devanagari
  • 12. Fictional placeholder often used but unrelated to endangered languages
  • 16. Andean language spoken near Lake Titicaca, struggles with speakers
  • 17. Indigenous language group from the Terai region of Nepal and India
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  • 3. Name sometimes linked to old script forms but less known here
  • 5. Language of the mountainous Hunza region in northern Pakistan
  • 9. Berber script used by Tuareg people in North Africa
  • 10. Language isolate from the Pacific Northwest of Canada and the USA
  • 11. System to write Japanese using the Latin alphabet
  • 13. Jewish language blending Germanic, Hebrew, and Slavic roots
  • 14. Language family of southern Africa known for complex click sounds
  • 15. Semitic language spoken on an island in the Mediterranean Sea
  • 18. Celtic language revived on an island in the Irish Sea
  • 19. South African language known for its distinctive click consonants

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