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"A Partial Decipherment of the Indus Valley Script: Proposed Phonetic and Logographic Values for Selected Indus Signs and Readings of Indus Texts Steven C Bonta - 2023"
"We posit values for approximately 60 Indus signs and full or partial readings for many inscriptions. Our methodology relied on the database-assisted method of "cross-checking" based on an initial hypothesis of several "anchor values," described in detail in the monograph. This approach yielded many extremely plausible names and titles, and suggests very strongly that the predominant language of the Indus inscriptions is an early form of Sanskrit or India-Aryan."
https://www.academia.edu/105134798/A_Par...ndus_Texts
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"In sum, although the task of Indus decipherment can now be accurately characterized as well underway, with significant numbers of inscriptions readable and/or interpretable in whole or in part, it is very far from complete and, indeed, may never be anywhere near as complete as the various successful decipherments carried out in the Middle East, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and the Mediterranean over the past two centuries. This state of affairs would change drastically were large amounts of new material to be added to the corpus from some hitherto largely unexcavated site such as Ganweriwala, and in particular were some trove of longer writing samples to be discovered. Barring such an event, however, the task of decipherment must continue cautiously and without undue expectations, with the modest goal of teasing as much nomenclatural, metrological, and economic data from the available material as possible, and contribute whatever additional kernels as we can to our limited stock of knowledge of the Indus civilization."
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(10-29-2023, 01:13 AM)Rana Wrote: "A Partial Decipherment of the Indus Valley Script: Proposed Phonetic and Logographic Values for Selected Indus Signs and Readings of Indus Texts Steven C Bonta - 2023"
"We posit values for approximately 60 Indus signs and full or partial readings for many inscriptions. Our methodology relied on the database-assisted method of "cross-checking" based on an initial hypothesis of several "anchor values," described in detail in the monograph. This approach yielded many extremely plausible names and titles, and suggests very strongly that the predominant language of the Indus inscriptions is an early form of Sanskrit or India-Aryan."
https://www.academia.edu/105134798/A_Par...ndus_Texts
indus valley is a indo european civilization
