Cache is not at the posted coordinates. To find the cache you must solve the puzzle below.
I had been thinking for a while that this park needed more caches. In fact, I'd been planning on placing one, when I saw that one of the Muggled! caches was published right here! I went to find it and to place my own finally, glad to see that it wasn't too close to where I had been thinking.
When I was finding a spot for this cache, I kept thinking the area looked like some sort of ancient village, now reduced to just the outlines of buildings. Or perhaps the houses still stand with their squirrel and bird residents. That was the inspiration for both the cache name and the puzzle.
If there really were an ancient village right there, obviously they would not have spoken our modern form of English. Based on the area, they probably spoke Onoñdaʔgegáʔ, or depending on how far back you look, perhaps any of various earlier forms, going back to something like what linguists call Proto-Iroquoian. Proto languages were never true languages themselves, but rather are reconstructions of the earliest forms of languages, based on analysis of the modern forms of related languages. Even though there don't exist any documents that show the actual earliest Iroquoian languge, for example, the reconstruction of Proto-Iroquoian (based on Onondaga, Seneca, Mohawk, Tuscarora, Erie, Huron, Neutral, Cherokee, and so on) is the closest theoretical approximation to it.
English, too, can be traced back very far, and in fact, the langage family that contains English is much larger. English has as its closest relatives languages like Dutch, German, Icelandic, Swedish, and Norwegian, and going further out all of the Romance, Celtic, and Hellenic languages, and going even further, all of the Slavic, Baltic, Iranic (e.g., Persian), and Indic (Sanskrit and its derivatives, including Hindi and Urdu) languages. All of these are under the Indo-European family, and there is a reconstruction of the earliest form for that as well, called Proto-Indo-European.
Meanwhile, the Finnish and Hungarian languages are not part of the Indo-Eurpoean language family. They are part of the Uralic family, which covers Hungary, Finland, the northern coast of Scandinavia, and the northern coast and central/Ural part of Russia (but not including the Russian language). I always find it interesting that, as geographically close as they are to Indo-European-speaking areas, and as widespread as the two are across all of Europe, there are no linguistic ties that can be found between them.
None of that is part of the puzzle, though; I just think it's interesting. It is related, however. Below is some writing in an ancient language. I will not tell you which, but I will tell you that it is Indo-European. I will also tell you that it was spoken in central Asia. It is now extinct, and was spoken until around the mid-800s CE; no one knew of it until manuscripts were discovered in the early 1900s. There are two main varieties (and possibly a third) that are very different from each other; based on known texts, one was used primarily in religious settings, while the other was more of a common language, although the religious variety actually appears to have gone through much more change than the common variety. You'll be using the common variety, though. The discovery of this language also led to a shift in how linguists understood one of the earliest splits in the Indo-European family, a division known as the centum-satem divide.
There will essentially be two parts to this. First you will have to transcribe it to something that looks like English letters. Then you will have to translate that into English from this language. To my knowledge, there is nothing that will translate the characters directly. Omniglot is a good resource for writing systems, and there is a good dictionary hosted on the website for Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Message me if you need any help, or if a character is too hard to read, or if you'd like some advice on how to read this style of writing system. I can also help correct transcriptions for slight variations from what I got (e.g., if you used a different letter or diacritic but found the right character overall). Note that I will help with visibility issues at any time, but I will only provide actual hints after the FTF.
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