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Forgotten Tongues of Ancient Trade
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  • 1. Name associated with trade dialects in central Asian caravan routes
  • 2. Trade language used by merchants on the Silk Road
  • 3. Simplified Egyptian cursive script for administrative use
  • 5. Extinct Uralic script from northern trade cultures
  • 7. Language that spread through historic Middle Eastern trade routes
  • 8. Script from ancient maritime traders of the Mediterranean
  • 10. Ancient script used along Silk Road in Central Asia
  • 11. Classical language that influenced commerce across the Mediterranean
  • 15. Mysterious language of a Bronze Age civilization with undeciphered script
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  • 4. Script of a kingdom along Nile trade routes, still partly undeciphered
  • 6. Language linked to early classification but also ancient trade origins
  • 9. Language of Carthaginian traders across Mediterranean waters
  • 12. Ancient language from southwestern Iran involved in regional commerce
  • 13. Abbreviated form for wedge-shaped script used in ancient trade documents
  • 14. Lingua franca of Near Eastern trade during the first millennium BCE

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