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Vanished Tongues of Oceanic Isles
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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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