Explore the lost and extinct languages once spoken across remote islands through this crossword puzzle highlighting their unique linguistic legacies.
Vanished Tongues of Island Realms
Explore the mysterious lost languages once spoken on remote islands, revealing clues from vanished cultures and forgotten dialects.
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- 1. Person who studies lost languages
- 2. Method of cultural and language spread across islands
- 3. Ancient script related to sacred texts, often lost in island cultures
- 4. Archipelago whose early languages vanished
- 6. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
- 8. Extinct island language from the South Pacific
- 10. What extinct languages have lost
- 12. Describes languages native and unique to specific islands
- 15. Extinct Polynesian dialect once used in remote lagoons
- 17. Another word for language, often lost on islands
- 19. Technology that helped preserve island languages
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- 5. Lost island language once spoken near the Indian Ocean
- 7. Indigenous language group of Australian islands
- 9. Written document preserving lost island languages
- 11. Structured system of communication
- 13. An extinct island language once spoken in the Indian Ocean
- 14. Native language of Guam, historically suppressed
- 16. Island of the ancient Rongorongo script
- 18. Filipino island with diverse lost languages
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