Explore the lost and extinct languages once spoken across remote islands through this crossword puzzle highlighting their unique linguistic legacies.
Vanished Island Tongues and Echoes
Explore the extinct and ancient languages once spoken across remote islands, highlighting their cultural heritage and linguistic mystery.
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- 1. Language family covering many island tongues
- 4. Status describing vulnerable island languages
- 5. Extinct Papuan language once spoken on Manus Island
- 8. Extinct Polynesian language from Rapa Island
- 9. Lost language of Efate Island in Vanuatu
- 10. Name of ancient culture linked to early island languages
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- 2. Ancestor language of many Pacific island tongues
- 3. Polynesian language once spoken on Mangareva Island
- 6. Language family with extinct island dialects in Southeast Asia
- 7. Language group wiped out after European colonization
- 11. Endangered language of Palau’s islands
- 12. Language with no known relatives found on some islands
- 13. Extinct language of New Guinea's Moiki Island
- 14. Term for a language no longer spoken
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