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Vanished Tongues of Oceanic Isles
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
  • 1. Ancient dialect hypothesized on a lost island nation
  • 2. Island with a historic language replaced largely by French
  • 3. Language once spoken on Japan's northern islands, now nearly extinct
  • 4. Lost indigenous language of Guam, heavily influenced by Spanish
  • 6. Extinct language from a small Pacific atoll
  • 8. Lost tongue once spoken on a remote Indian Ocean island
  • 10. Term meaning 'southern barbarian' linked to historical island cultures
  • 11. Papuan island with several endangered native languages
  • 12. Obscure island language known only from brief texts
  • 14. Extinct native language from coastal California islands
  • 15. Island in French Polynesia with an extinct language variant
  • 17. Small South Pacific island with its own Polynesian heritage language
  • 19. South Philippine island language with fading use
Down
  • 5. Ancient language with undeciphered origins on a distant island
  • 7. Largest island in Micronesia with a fading native dialect
  • 9. Undeciphered script from Easter Island's ancient culture
  • 13. Indigenous Polynesian language still spoken but once endangered
  • 16. Pacific kingdom with historic but extinct indigenous dialects
  • 18. Island known for its mysterious script, the Rongorongo
  • 20. Micronesian island group with multiple disappearing languages

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