A crossword exploring extinct and obscure languages once spoken on isolated islands around the world.
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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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- 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
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- 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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