Explore the forgotten languages once spoken across the islands of Oceania, uncovering the cultural heritage and history embedded in these lost tongues.
Vanished Voices of Oceanic Isles
A crossword puzzle exploring the forgotten and extinct languages once spoken across Oceania’s diverse islands and cultures.
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Across
- 1. Language of French Polynesia with historic decline
- 3. Polynesian island with a nearly extinct traditional language
- 4. Nearly vanished Micronesian language
- 6. Nearly lost Polynesian language from Tokelau Islands
- 9. Forgotten tongue from tiny islands of Oceania
- 11. Lost language historically spoken in the Solomon Islands
- 13. Extinct Oceanic language from Manus Island
Down
- 2. One of the largest Papuan languages, now endangered
- 5. Indigenous Australian language group with extinct dialects
- 7. Obsolete language formerly heard in Bismarck Archipelago
- 8. Papuan language with dwindling number of speakers
- 10. Polynesian language endangered in some dialects
- 12. Papuan language group once widespread in New Guinea
- 14. Traditional language of Bougainville with heritage status
- 15. Language once native to an island in Vanuatu
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