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Vanished Tongues of Remote Islands
Explore the mysterious lost languages once spoken on isolated islands and uncover clues about their origins and extinction.
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Across
  • 1. Islands with several vanished indigenous tongues
  • 2. Term for the least prestigious form of a creole, sometimes island dialects
  • 3. Philippine island with endangered native languages
  • 4. Undeciphered script linked to Easter Island
  • 8. Island where the Rongorongo script was found
  • 9. An extinct Polynesian dialect formerly used in the Cook Islands
  • 14. Hawaiian island with a near-extinct Hawaiian dialect
  • 17. Island where several lost languages were once spoken
Down
  • 5. Papua New Guinea island with extinct languages
  • 6. Island in Solomons with languages extinct due to colonization
  • 7. A regional form of language often lost on islands
  • 10. Polynesian language once spoken on Tahiti
  • 11. Language of the Tolai people no longer widely used
  • 12. Symbolic figure tied to cultures with lost island languages
  • 13. Indigenous language of Guam with colonial influences
  • 15. Extinct language from the Komodo Island region
  • 16. Old name for Taiwan, home to lost Formosan languages

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