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Forgotten Scripts and Renaissance Tongues
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  • 1. Semitic alphabet precursor to Greek and Latin scripts
  • 2. North African language related to Phoenician
  • 5. Ancient Anatolian language sometimes studied by Renaissance scholars
  • 6. Ancient Italian language mysterious even in Renaissance times
  • 8. Undeciphered script from Easter Island's mysterious past
  • 9. Egyptian script used for everyday writing in later periods
  • 11. Lingua franca of the Near East during early history
  • 12. Mycenaean Greek script undeciphered until 20th century
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  • 3. Simplified Egyptian script used alongside hieroglyphs
  • 4. Alphabet of Germanic tribes, fading by Renaissance era
  • 7. Ancient Semitic language found in Syrian city archives
  • 10. Old Slavic alphabet rediscovered in medieval manuscripts
  • 13. Cuneiform script from a lost Syrian city, studied in Renaissance
  • 14. Ancient Mesoamerican language with a complex hieroglyphic system
  • 15. Late Egyptian language written in Greek letters

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