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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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