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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
Down
- 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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