tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562078063574460646.post667850998823555803..comments2023-09-05T04:30:30.220-05:00Comments on Indus Script & More: Ligatures in Indus Script: Part 3Diwiyanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04502629580001611850noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562078063574460646.post-56921614806708480322015-01-02T09:40:27.847-06:002015-01-02T09:40:27.847-06:00I'm happy to help. The fact is that no one ha...I'm happy to help. The fact is that no one has deciphered the Indus script to the satisfaction of most experts (academics in the fields of linguistics or South Asia). In spite of this, there are a great many individuals, many of them not academics, who claim to have deciphered the script. In fact, it is hard to find two scholars who agree on much of anything about the script, including whether or not it likely was a fully functioning writing system. Parpola, Mahadevan, and Fairservis argue the language underlying the script was probably Dravidian. Others prefer a relative of Sanskrit. Still others make other arguments. But because of the nature of the evidence -- short texts, lack of a bilingual, the fact that most individual signs appear fewer than 100 times in the whole corpus -- there is certainly no proof for any particular claim. A good place to start reading is with G.L. Possehl's "Indus Age: The Writing System" (1996, Univ. of Pennsylvania), which gives a brief overview of attempts of decipherment in the last century.Diwiyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04502629580001611850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562078063574460646.post-66686675305548086802015-01-01T05:48:48.709-06:002015-01-01T05:48:48.709-06:00I would like to read something about indus script,...I would like to read something about indus script, but I am hearing voices over there, that affirm the language has been already translated. Is it true? I do not think so, but many people is talking about the Sullivan code, which apparently is based in the supposition the language is sanskrit, however the Asko Parpola's theory (which is pro dravidian, I think) is not denied for anyone.... Could you help me? Regards.Nudimmudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11552686825686926806noreply@blogger.com