Explore the lost and extinct languages once spoken across remote islands through this crossword puzzle highlighting their unique linguistic legacies.
Vanished Tongues of Remote Islands is a easy crossword puzzle with 17 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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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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- 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
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- 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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