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Vanished Tongues of Tropical Jungles
A crossword exploring extinct and endangered languages once spoken in tropical regions, highlighting unique linguistic heritage and cultural mysteries.
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Across
  • 1. Region near the equator where these lost languages thrived
  • 3. An emblem representing a tribe's ancestral spirits and language
  • 4. An endangered language of the Amazon rainforest
  • 5. The study of different peoples and their languages
  • 7. A melodic form of speech or ritual language
  • 13. Term for languages no longer spoken anywhere
  • 15. Geographic locations where many tropical lost languages emerged
  • 16. Language of the once dominant Caribbean island tribes
  • 18. Dense forest region home to tropical lost languages
Down
  • 2. Extinct language family once spoken in the Caribbean and South America
  • 6. Tropical fruit often symbolizing island cultures
  • 8. A forgotten tongue of Central African river peoples
  • 9. Describes languages that have no living speakers
  • 10. Lost language from tropical Africa's coastal regions
  • 11. The collection of words within a language
  • 12. What often causes languages to disappear
  • 14. Cultural ceremonies often tied to native language use
  • 17. What lost languages leave behind in culture and history
  • 19. Group of indigenous languages from tropical South America

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