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
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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