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Does anyone have an educated guess as to whether we'd now understand hieroglyphics without the Rosetta Stone? I know other phonetic languages with likely fewer
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
Does anyone have an educated guess as to whether we'd now understand hieroglyphics without the Rosetta Stone? I know other phonetic languages with likely fewer available documents have been decoded without such a tool, but at least from a laypersons perspective the pictographs would male it much more complicated. I guess Demotic would allow one to workaround that hurdle.
- lostlogin 5y agoI can’t answer you question, but there is at least one more poorly understood ’written’ language, the Quipu, made by the Inca. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
- flobosg 5y agoHere’s a list with more of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeciphered_writing_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeciphered_writing_systems
- urubu 5y agoThere are other bi-/trilingual texts, like the decree of Canopus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_of_Canopus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_of_Canopus
- Bayart 5y agoYou can just look at Linear A[1] if you want a well known example of that. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A
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