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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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