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Vanished Tongues of Ancient Europe
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- 1. Obscure extinct language once used in Asia Minor
- 2. Language of an ancient Sicilian people, mostly known from short inscriptions
- 3. Ancient Balkan language with scant surviving inscriptions
- 6. Group of languages once spoken by indigenous people in northern Scandinavia, some dialects now extinct
- 9. Ancient language spoken in northwest Italy and southeast France
- 10. Short form for the extinct Northumbrian dialect of Old English
- 11. Obsolete language of Baltic tribes near the Vistula River
- 14. Language of an ancient people in northeastern Italy
- 17. East Germanic language of the early medieval period
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- 4. Ancient language from the region roughly corresponding to modern Romania
- 5. Alternative term linked historically to the extinct language of the Sami people (use 'SAAMI' instead)
- 7. Ancient Italic language documented on inscriptions from southern Italy
- 8. Extinct Indo-European language once spoken in the western Balkans
- 12. Extinct member of the Italic language family distinct from Latin
- 13. North African language once prevalent in ancient Mediterranean colonies
- 15. Group of ancient Italic languages including Oscan and Umbrian
- 16. Language spoken by ancient Celtic tribes in what is now France
- 18. Pre-Indo-European language isolate historically confined to the western Pyrenees
- 19. Branch of languages largely replaced across Europe by Latin and Germanic tongues
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