Date: Around 2200 BC.Location: Western, southern and eastern Iran.Type: Syllabic Script.Text Corpus: 22 (known a long time), plus 15 (known since 2015).Sign Corpus: 110 sign type, 1340 sign tokens.Status: Principally undeciphered, except the sound values for in, šu, uš, ši, na, and k, drawn from the divine name Inšušinak found in the only bilingual inscription. Several further sound values were proposed. In our paper, some of them are being corroborated, and a new one is presented.Language behind the signs: Based on graphotactical patterns found in the texts, this paper claims that it must be Elamite or a language closely related to it
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open2noRebus and acrophony are crucial in the development of ancient invented scripts from Mesopotam...
Not long ago, a rune was discovered in the Cholistan Desert of modern day Pakistan. A team of archae...
The interpretation of the Niya Prakrit grapheme is an unsolved problem of the Kharoṣṭhī script. This...
The Byblos writing system (ca. 1500 BC) comprises 15 inscriptions, with the largest one containing 4...
The Linear Elamite writing system was used in the late 3rd millennium in ancient Iran.The underlying...
<b>Styles SJ (2014)</b>. 'What can ancient scripts tell us about sound symbolism?' Poster presented ...
Poster presented at the International Multisensory Research Forum, Amsterdam, June 2014<br><br>Abstr...
More than sixty years after Michael Ventris’ decipherment of the Linear B script, 14 of its 87 sylla...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42943/1/10783_2004_Article_BF00163003.p...
This paper addresses a technique using a combination of known words, and methods from information th...
More than 60 years after Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B, 14 of its syllabic signs remain ...
An Old Hungarian Runic inscription from the Altai Mountains with 40 signs has posed some special cha...
Most undeciphered lost languages exhibit two characteristics that pose significant decipherment chal...
In Vertegaal 2017, it was argued that plene spellings (〈CV-V〉 sign sequences) in Hieroglyphic Luwian...
This article discusses the abrupt spellings (the type (C)VC-VC and also, as it appears from the trea...
open2noRebus and acrophony are crucial in the development of ancient invented scripts from Mesopotam...
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