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Forgotten Alphabets and Ancient Tongues
Explore the enigmatic world of lost languages and scripts through this captivating crossword puzzle featuring extinct alphabets, mysterious writings, and vanished dialects.
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Across
  • 1. Mycenaean Greek script predating the Greek alphabet
  • 2. Prehistoric European symbols predating known alphabets
  • 3. Ancient Mesopotamian script using wedge-shaped marks
  • 4. Ancient Indian language that preceded many modern dialects
  • 5. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
  • 7. Ancient script considered ancestor of many alphabets
  • 8. Extinct Celtic language once spoken in Iberia
  • 10. Egyptian cursive writing derived from hieroglyphs
  • 14. Simplified Egyptian script derived from hieratic
  • 18. Script associated with the ancient civilization in the Indian subcontinent
  • 19. Symbols carved or inscribed in ancient writing systems
Down
  • 6. Early script used for writing ancient Hebrew texts
  • 9. Extinct Indo-European language of Anatolia
  • 11. Lost Sumerian language name meaning 'noble bearer' (theory)
  • 12. Alphabet used by Germanic tribes, now considered archaic
  • 13. Code name sometimes used for the unknown scripts (hint at difficulty)
  • 15. Script of the ancient Tuareg people
  • 16. Culture that used Linear B script in ancient Greece
  • 17. Type of symbolic notation used by some native tribes
  • 20. Prehistoric Mesoamerican culture with undeciphered signs

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