# Signs copied from alphabet tables without linguistic order

> Still possible: The signs are letters copied from published Phoenician, Iberian and other alphabet tables and set down without linguistic order, so the…

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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.

**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

- 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…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/evidence/EVD0DEDY9F72CWK/crawfords-1977-computer-analysis-of-34-tablets-found-none-of)

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FOR

[The letter forms on the first tablets match fifth-century Phoenician rather than the archaic script a Neolithic…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/evidence/EVD0DEDYA14718D/the-letter-forms-on-the-first-tablets-match-fifth-century)

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## The questions it answers

[Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTPBXAPB0/do-the-glozel-signs-form-a-writing-system-that-records-a)

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