Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Forgotten Tongues of Ancient Europe
Explore extinct and obsolete European languages through this challenging crossword puzzle highlighting historical tongues once spoken across the continent.
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Across
- 1. Family of languages including extinct Old Prussian
- 2. Rhaeto-Romance language once widespread in the Alps
- 5. Pre-Roman language spoken in western Iberia
- 6. Language spoken in ancient Anatolia before Hittites
- 7. Carthaginian language once significant in Mediterranean Europe
- 8. North Germanic language with archaic roots, once closer to older extinct dialects
- 10. Group including several now extinct European languages
- 11. Ancient language of central Italy no longer spoken
- 16. Ancient language of the region now Romania
- 20. Ancient Italic language once spoken in southern Italy
Down
- 3. Language associated with medieval European Khazar refugees
- 4. Extinct Baltic language in northeast Europe
- 9. Ancient language of the western Balkans
- 12. Ancient Greek dialect now obsolete
- 13. First form of Greek known from Linear B script
- 14. Extinct Indo-European language once in Southeast Europe
- 15. Ancient language spoken around the Venetian lagoon
- 17. Dead Italic language closely related to Oscan
- 18. Obsolete Celtic language once spoken in Gaul
- 19. East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
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