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Seals showing Indus script, an ancient undeciphered writing systemPage 32 of the Voynich manuscript, a medieval manuscript written with an undeciphered writing system
Many undeciphered writing systems exist today; most date back several thousand years, although some more modern examples do exist. The term "writing systems" is used here loosely to refer to groups of glyphs which appear to have representational symbolic meaning, but which may include "systems" that are largely artistic in nature and are thus not examples of actual writing.
The difficulty in deciphering these systems can arise from a lack of known language descendants or from the languages being entirely isolated, from insufficient examples of text having been found and even (such as in the case of Vinča) from the question of whether the symbols actually constitute a writing system at all. Some researchers have claimed to be able to decipher certain writing systems, such as those of Epi-Olmec, Phaistos and Indus texts; but to date, these claims have not been widely accepted within the scientific community, or confirmed by independent researchers, for the writing systems listed here (unless otherwise specified).
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Many undecipheredwritingsystems exist today; most date back several thousand years, although some more modern examples do exist. The term "writing systems"...
(1990). WritingSystems. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1756-4. Martin, Joe (2000). A Linguistic Comparison: Two Notation Systems for Signed...
Comparatively recent manuscripts and other texts written in undeciphered (and often unidentified) writingsystems; some of these may represent ciphers of known languages...
historical invention of writing, true writingsystems were preceded by systems of ideographic and mnemonic symbols called proto-writing, which were not fully...
fauna, anatomies, fashions, and foods. It has been compared to the still undeciphered Voynich manuscript, the story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis...
recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undecipheredwritingsystems, though there are various claims without wide acceptance, which...
a broad range of ideas. Writingsystems are distinguished from other symbolic communication systems in that a writingsystem is always associated with...
who are purported by traditions to have invented alphabets or other writingsystems, whether this is proven or not. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa - German...
Protohistory South Indian Inscriptions Undecipheredwritingsystems Bryant (2001), p. 178: "proto‐Indus writing on shards of pottery from the Ravi phase...
can distinguish one word from another in a given language. Not all writingsystems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken...
a type of ideogram. As true writingsystems emerged from systems of pure ideograms, later societies with phonetic writing were often compelled by the...
The Zapotec script is the writingsystem of the Zapotec culture and represents one of the earliest writingsystems in Mesoamerica. Rising in the late Pre-Classic...
/C1V1C2/). This loosely corresponds to shallow orthographies in alphabetic writingsystems.[citation needed] True syllabograms are those that encompass all parts...
The Dispilio tablet is a wooden tablet bearing inscribed markings, unearthed during George Hourmouziadis's excavations of Dispilio in Greece, and carbon...
asemic writing are alien languages in science fiction, artistic languages, sigils, undeciphered scripts, and graffiti. Uses for asemic writing include...
cryptograms), in chronological order by date, are: Undecipheredwritingsystems (cleartext, natural-language writing of unknown meaning) Elonka Dunin's list of...
another early Mesoamerican writingsystem. They can be seen to contain calendric information but are otherwise undeciphered. The longest of these texts...
hieroglyphic writingsystem used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. They predate Linear A by about a century, but the two writingsystems continued...
1250 BC or 1200 BC. Gudi (instrument) Neolithic signs in China Undecipheredwritingsystems Underhill, Anne P. (2013). A Companion to Chinese Archaeology...
palæographical database", August 20, 2020 E Kyriakidis, "Undeciphered tablets and undeciphered territories: A comparison of late minoan IB archives", Proceedings...
physical object. Pictograms are used in systems of writing and visual communication. A pictography is a writingsystem which uses pictograms. Some pictograms...
century, knowledge of hieroglyphic writing was lost. Although attempts were made, the script remained undeciphered throughout the Middle Ages and the...
deciphering "natural" language communication. There remain many undecipheredwritingsystems in human communication, such as Linear A, discovered by archeologists...
out that the Issyk inscription bears a resemblance to later, similarly undeciphered inscriptions from the Kushan Empire, dated to the 2nd-3rd centuries CE...
generally considered to be the earliest writingsystems, both emerging out of their ancestral proto-literate symbol systems from 3400 to 3200 BC with the earliest...
as an alphabet for the remaining consonants and vowels. This unique writingsystem has been called a semi-syllabary. There is no agreement about how the...
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