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Lost Scripts and Ancient Tongues
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- 2. Term originally linked to formal speech but metaphorically lost in silent scripts
- 4. Pre-Columbian civilization whose language remains undeciphered
- 5. Language of one of the oldest known civilizations in Mesopotamia
- 7. Principle where symbols represent words starting with the sound depicted
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- 1. Egyptian script derived from hieratic, used for everyday writing
- 3. Extinct East Germanic language once spoken by tribes
- 6. Alphabet used in early Germanic inscriptions
- 8. Earliest known writing system of Mesopotamia
- 9. Prefix related to ancient scripts like Linear A or B
- 10. An ancient Anatolian language deciphered from clay tablets
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