Indus script | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-03

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00:02:00 1 Corpus
00:02:57 1.1 Late Harappan
00:03:46 2 Characteristics
00:04:25 3 Decipherability question
00:06:53 4 Attempts at decipherment
00:07:47 4.1 Dravidian hypothesis
00:10:08 4.2 "Sanskritic" hypothesis
00:11:14 4.3 Miscellaneous hypotheses
00:13:33 5 Encoding
00:14:15 6 See also



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The Indus script (also known as the Harappan script) is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilisation during the Kot Diji and Mature Harappan periods between 3500 and 1900 BCE. Most inscriptions containing these symbols are extremely short, making it difficult to judge whether or not these symbols constituted a script used to record a language, or even symbolise a writing system. In spite of many attempts, ‘the script’ has not yet been deciphered, but efforts are ongoing. There is no known bilingual inscription to help decipher the script, and the script shows no significant changes over time. However, some of the syntax (if that is what it may be termed) varies depending upon location.The first publication of a seal with Harappan symbols dates to 1875, in a drawing by Alexander Cunningham. Since then, over 4,000 inscribed objects have been discovered, some as far afield as Mesopotamia. In the early 1970s, Iravatham Mahadevan published a corpus and concordance of Indus inscriptions listing 3,700 seals and 417 distinct signs in specific patterns. He also found that the average inscription contained five symbols and that the longest inscription contained only 14 symbols in a single line.Some scholars, such as G.R. Hunter, S. R. Rao, John Newberry, Krishna Rao, and Subhash Kak have argued that the Brāhmī script has some connection with the Indus system, but others, such as Iravatham Mahadevan, Kamil Zvelebil and Asko Parpola, have argued that the script had a relation to a Dravidian language. F. Raymond Allchin has somewhat cautiously supported the possibility, that even many supporters of the theory that Brāhmī probably derives from Aramaic influence consider that the Brahmi language can have some Indus script influence.
Another possibility for continuity of the Indus tradition is in the megalithic culture graffiti symbols of southern and central India (and Sri Lanka), which probably do not constitute a linguistic script but may have some overlap with the Indus symbol inventory.