Answer · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field

Signs copied from alphabet tables without linguistic order

The signs are letters copied from published Phoenician, Iberian and other alphabet tables and set down without linguistic order, so the tablets record no language.

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Where it stands

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

What it predicts

Sign-frequency and conditional-entropy statistics on the whole corpus will match random or near-random draws from a fixed sign set rather than a language.
Few or no sign sequences will repeat across tablets beyond chance.
Every sign shape will have a printed model available in France before its first appearance at Glozel.

What would rule it out

Corpus-wide statistics show a Zipf-like frequency profile, positional preferences and repeated sequences at the level of a natural language, with the test held out from any decipherment.
A sign shape with no printed model before its first find is shown to belong to a genuine ancient script.

Evidence 2 for · none against

Crawford's 1977 computer analysis of 34 tablets found none of the statistical characteristics of a natural-language…

Suggestive

FOR

The letter forms on the first tablets match fifth-century Phoenician rather than the archaic script a Neolithic…

Supported

FOR

The questions it answers

Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?

Open4 answers, none ahead

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Signs copied from alphabet tables without linguistic order [Answer ANS0DEDWTV74PBH]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DEDWTV74PBH

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