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Vanished Tongues of Oceanic Isles
Explore the mysterious lost languages once spoken across the oceanic islands in this engaging crossword puzzle.
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  • 1. Language family from New Guinea often associated with lost dialects
  • 2. Simplified languages created for inter-island communication
  • 3. Describes languages no longer spoken anywhere
  • 4. Term for surviving fragments of lost languages
  • 6. An Oceanic language related to several extinct island dialects
  • 7. Island language group with many documented extinct tongues
  • 14. Rare historical language once spoken on remote Oceanic isles
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  • 5. Scientific study that helps recover lost tongues
  • 8. Fictional extinct island language inspired by Oceanic sounds
  • 9. Written correspondence style found in some island languages
  • 10. Person who traditionally preserved language through storytelling
  • 11. Original peoples of Australia with languages now lost or endangered
  • 12. Region of Oceanic isles with many extinct indigenous languages
  • 13. Island name symbolic of lost indigenous languages (southwestern Australia)

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