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Vanished Tongues of Ancient Earth
A crossword exploring ancient and forgotten languages that once echoed across the Earth.
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- 1. Classical language of ancient Rome, precursor to Romance languages
- 2. Characteristic of expressive or persuasive speech, but used here metaphorically
- 4. Group of ancient languages once widespread in Europe
- 5. Language of ancient pharaohs, written in hieroglyphs
- 6. East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
- 7. Earliest known written language, from ancient Mesopotamia
- 9. Language of Southern Africa, though still spoken, some dialects are fading
- 11. Ancient Indo-Aryan language of the Indian subcontinent
- 13. Biblical reference symbolizing confusion of languages
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- 3. Language of ancient Carthage derived from Phoenician
- 8. Pertaining to the ancient Urartian language of the Armenian highlands
- 10. An ancient Anatolian language from the Bronze Age
- 12. Extinct Indo-European language once spoken in Western China
- 14. Extinct Semitic language once spoken in Mesopotamia
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