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Vanished Tongues of Remote Isles
Explore the mysterious and forgotten languages that once thrived on isolated islands around the world.
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Across
  • 1. Document type where some lost island languages survive
  • 2. Status often assigned to island languages at risk
  • 4. Symbol representing a single sound or concept in scripts
  • 6. Hypothetical lost language from a remote Pacific island
  • 7. Region with many isolated island languages
  • 8. Polynesian island group with an ancient language
  • 12. Ancient language of Guam and the Marianas
  • 14. Historic Polynesian language of the Society Islands
  • 15. Island home of the lost Rongorongo script
Down
  • 3. Field studying languages, including extinct ones
  • 5. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
  • 9. Whistled language from the Canary Islands
  • 10. Old name for the Palau islands with unique language history
  • 11. Extinct Nile Valley script still only partly understood
  • 13. Archipelago with over 100 indigenous languages
  • 16. Isolated island with a unique mixed language

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