Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Forgotten Tongues of European Heritage
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Obscure language of early northern Scotland’s inhabitants
- 2. Ancient Italic language once spoken near the northeastern Adriatic
- 3. Goidelic language historically spoken on the Isle of Man
- 5. Ancient language unrelated to Indo-European, extinct, known from cuneiform (included for rarity in European studies)
- 7. Germanic tongue once considered a dialect, now less used in Scotland
- 8. Indo-European tongue from the Balkans, vanished by antiquity
- 12. Romance language once found along the Adriatic coast
- 16. East Germanic language once spoken by a famous tribe
Down
- 4. Celtic language formerly dominant in ancient France
- 6. Referring to old Baltic languages like Old Prussian, now extinct
- 9. Celtic language revived after extinction in southwestern England
- 10. Northeast Caucasian language with historic roots in Dagestan (included due to European Russia)
- 11. Early medieval form of the Irish language, precursor to modern Gaelic
- 13. extinct Baltic language from the region now part of Poland
- 14. Language with ancient roots; Old Albanian forms mostly replaced
- 15. Romance language spoken in northeastern Italy, historically distinct though still used dialectally
- 17. West Germanic ancestor of Low German spoken in medieval Germany
- 18. Rhaeto-Romance language formerly widespread in the Dolomite region
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