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Vanished Tongues and Forgotten Scripts
Explore the enigmatic lost languages and ancient scripts that vanished from history in this intriguing crossword puzzle.
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  • 1. Final phase of ancient Egyptian language, mainly in texts
  • 2. Ancient African language family with extinct branches
  • 3. Earliest form of Greek, written in Linear B script
  • 4. Ancient nomadic language from Central Asia
  • 8. Extinct language of the pre-Incan civilization in Peru
  • 9. Language of an Iron Age kingdom near Lake Van
  • 10. Homeric Greek inhabitants, term linked with Mycenaean era
  • 11. Ancient language once spoken in southwestern Iran
  • 17. Undeciphered script from the Pacific island of Easter Island
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  • 5. Undeciphered ancient script from Harappan civilization
  • 6. Extinct Semitic language of ancient maritime traders
  • 7. Extinct East Germanic language once spoken by the Visigoths
  • 12. Dead Indo-European language once spoken in Chinese Turkestan
  • 13. Ancient Anatolian language known from cuneiform tablets
  • 14. Pre-Columbian civilization suspected to have had a lost language
  • 15. Classical language of ancient India, preserved in texts
  • 16. Ancient South American language believed extinct
  • 18. Region where the Elamite language was used
  • 19. Ancient script used for Mycenaean Greek
  • 20. Ancient language family from the Nile Valley region

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