Guest guest Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 I got this in an email today, and just thought I'd pass it along, given the recent thread. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BOOKSTORE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lost Languages: THE ENIGMA OF THE WORLD'S UNDECIPHERED SCRIPTS by Andrew Robinson It is baffling and humbling to confront an incomprehensible form of writing, such as Chinese for most Westerners. People who try to decipher the scripts of lost languages face an even sterner challenge, because there are no contemporary speakers or writers to help. That is the challenge depicted learnedly and fascinatingly by Robinson, literary editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement in London. He sets the stage by describing the hard work that went into the "three great decipherments": Egyptian hieroglyphs, Linear B of Crete, and Mayan glyphs. Then he poses the problems presented by nine undeciphered scripts, among them the languages of the Etruscans and the people of Easter Island. Success at deciphering, Robinson writes, requires "fanatical perseverance and devotion to detail and wide linguistic and cultural knowledge." The book's many illustrations of the enigmatic scripts make vivid the difficulty of the decipherer's task. Brian -------------------- BrianDanaAkers.com sfauthor fax 586-283-4680 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2002 Report Share Posted July 4, 2002 INDOLOGY, Sfauthor@a... wrote: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BOOKSTORE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Lost Languages: THE ENIGMA OF THE WORLD'S UNDECIPHERED SCRIPTS > > by Andrew Robinson > Read this book's section on the IVC script. It talks in great detail about Parpola's theory that it's Dravidian,. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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