Explore the lost and extinct languages once spoken across remote islands through this crossword puzzle highlighting their unique linguistic legacies.
Vanished Tongues of Oceanic Isles
Explore the enigmatic lost languages once spoken across remote islands, revealing their cultural and historical mysteries.
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Across
- 1. A group of islands, often home to unique languages
- 2. Northern Mariana Islands locale with vanished Chamorro dialects
- 3. Status of a language no longer spoken anywhere
- 4. Island in the Pacific with a lost language called Rongorongo
- 7. Micronesian island with lost languages and stone money
- 10. Lost Polynesian language once spoken on a remote island
- 12. System of communication used by island communities
- 13. Geographic factor causing language loss on islands
- 15. Island where the extinct language Titan was once spoken
- 16. Indigenous language of Mariana Islands, some dialects now extinct
Down
- 5. Island group in the Pacific with languages that have faded
- 6. Polynesian culture with ancient dialects now lost
- 8. Not an island language, included as a distractor
- 9. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
- 11. Extinct language of Manus Island
- 14. Study of speech sounds crucial for language reconstruction
- 17. Island with several extinct languages in Vanuatu
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