# Undetermined: the texts cannot yet be assigned to a language

> Still possible: The language is undetermined: probably Semitic given the place, but the corpus of about 1,000 signs without a bilingual cannot yet show…

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# Undetermined: the texts cannot yet be assigned to a language

The language is undetermined: probably Semitic given the place, but the corpus of about 1,000 signs without a bilingual cannot yet show which language, and no proposed reading has passed an independent test.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Sequence analysis finds morpheme structure, but it is compatible with more than one language family.
- Externally anchored values from the seal, when found, will rule out several existing readings before they confirm any.
- No reading will account for all 15 inscriptions with one sign list until the corpus grows.

## What would rule it out

- A reading that passes the seal bilingual, reads every inscription with one consistent sign list and matches the independently found morpheme boundaries.
- Discovery of a bilingual or of a long new text that fixes the language.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[Sequence analysis of the Unicode-transcribed corpus recovers morphemes and word boundaries without sound values…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV51A295T/sequence-analysis-of-the-unicode-transcribed-corpus-recovers)

Suggestive

FOR

[The current specialist overviews conclude that the script remains undeciphered and that no proposal since 1946 has…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV4SM9H2R/the-current-specialist-overviews-conclude-that-the-script)

Supported

FOR

## The questions it answers

[What language do the Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQPQYVGBW/what-language-do-the-byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic-inscriptions)

Open6 answers, none ahead

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Undetermined: the texts cannot yet be assigned to a language [Answer ANS0DEDSH7W3M43]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DEDSH7W3M43
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