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Vanished Tongues of Remote Isles
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  • 1. Describes a phonetic feature prominent in many extinct island languages' consonant inventory
  • 3. Type of auxiliary linguistic element often surviving in extinct island languages
  • 4. Obsolete maritime island language noted for ritualistic lexemes
  • 5. Surname linked to obscure Polynesian language documentation
  • 7. Poetic term referencing island languages extinct through colonial silence
  • 10. Nanolanguage extinct in Andaman archipelago, known only from scant lexical records
  • 14. Extinct dialect of an island group whose name evokes molten histories
  • 16. Name of vanished language from a volcanic island region, masking its linguistic roots
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  • 2. Rare extinct island tongue with unique verb-centric morphology
  • 6. Term indicating ancient linguistic strata beneath modern island tongues
  • 8. Synthetic label for a vanished dialect once debated as island variant
  • 9. Endangered Polynesian tongue layers now morphologically fossilized
  • 11. Island language group level word, now defunct after regional shifts
  • 12. Family name for a cluster of Polynesian languages, some islands’ variants extinct
  • 13. Embedded in island extinct language names, also a botanical term cryptically hinting at sweetness lost
  • 15. Obscure extinct island language famed for its intricate animacy classification

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