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 islands around the world through this engaging crossword puzzle.
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Across
- 1. Phonetic variation of 'script,' ancient writing system
- 2. Extinct Oceanic language formerly spoken in the Marquesas
- 4. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
- 6. Tiny islands where unique languages disappeared
- 9. A lost Polynesian language from a remote island
- 12. Hypothetical lost island language
- 13. Islanders who preserved languages through migration
- 15. Islands with extinct languages like Guanche
- 16. Name for extinct dialect spoken in isolated Pacific islands
Down
- 3. Group of islands often with distinctive languages
- 5. Language family encompassing many island tongues
- 7. Describes languages no longer spoken
- 8. What linguists attempt with lost scripts
- 10. Extinct language of the Canary Islands
- 11. System of communication, the puzzle's main theme
- 14. Indigenous language of Guam, once endangered
- 17. Island nation with many indigenous tongues
- 18. Prefix in names of many Pacific island languages
- 19. Primary transmission method of many island languages
- 20. Island home of the extinct Rongorongo script
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