Explore the lost and extinct languages once spoken across remote islands through this crossword puzzle highlighting their unique linguistic legacies.
Vanished Voices of Island Tongues
Explore the mysterious lost languages once spoken on remote islands through this challenging crossword.
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- 1. Variation of a language sometimes isolated on islands
- 2. Polynesian island nation with its own unique language
- 3. Term for languages with no living speakers
- 4. Written record sometimes preserved lost island languages
- 6. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
- 8. Extinct language from an Amazonian island region
- 10. Ancient language which influenced island Mediterranean cultures
- 13. Geographical locations where many lost languages existed
- 14. Island famous for the extinct Rongorongo script
- 16. Status describing languages no longer in use
- 17. Extinct Polynesian language recorded on paper
Down
- 5. Describes a language almost lost from island communities
- 7. Original island inhabitants who spoke lost languages
- 9. Extinct language formerly spoken on an island in the southeastern US
- 11. Indigenous language of Guam, facing language shift
- 12. Language native to an island in French Polynesia
- 15. Language family including many island tongues in the Pacific
- 18. Extinct Muskogean language that had island speakers
- 19. An island language lost among Pacific communities
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