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Vanished Island Tongues and Scripts
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  • 1. Describes exaggerated oral traditions in extinct island dialects
  • 2. One who deciphers phonemes in vanished island dialects
  • 3. Caroline Islands dialect, endangered by regional lingua francas
  • 5. Indigenous dialect of Guam, nearly supplanted by colonial tongues
  • 6. Region housing multiple extinct dialects and proto-languages
  • 11. Polynesian wordplay ritual possibly extinct in contemporary usage
  • 12. Micronesian dialect once spoken in the Malakal isles
  • 16. Forgotten dialect once used in island ritual chants of the Naviti
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  • 4. Language family that includes ancestral forms now obsolete in Tonga
  • 7. Archipelago dialect cluster blending African and islander roots
  • 8. Mystical island dialect immortalized in 18th-century shipwreck lore
  • 9. Old Javanese term encompassing Indonesian archipelago dialects
  • 10. Extinct Polynesian language from the Gambier Islands
  • 13. Secret language of Melanesian ghost cults, lost to time
  • 14. Hypothetical language linked to a vanished Sahul islander clan
  • 15. Eastern Polynesian language once widespread in the Society Islands
  • 17. Lost dialect named after a reef region in Melanesian archipelagos

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