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Mysteries of Ancient Lost Alphabets
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- 1. Adjective relating to the ancient Semitic alphabet precursor to Greek
- 2. Common name associated with the people who used runic alphabets
- 5. Ancient script used in Northwest India, written right to left
- 8. Ancient Mesoamerican civilization, linked to an early script
- 9. Script used for the Maldivian language, derived from Arabic numerals
- 10. Later Egyptian script derived from hieratic handwriting
- 12. Ancient Indian script considered ancestor to many Asian alphabets
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- 3. Alphabet used by Germanic peoples before the Latin alphabet
- 4. Early medieval alphabet mainly used to write Old Irish
- 6. Old Slavic script created by Saints Cyril and Methodius
- 7. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
- 11. One of the earliest writing systems developed in Mesopotamia
- 13. Term used for simple, straight-stroke ancient scripts like A and B
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