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

> Crawford's 1977 computer analysis of 34 tablets found none of the statistical characteristics of a natural-language text when compared with Basque…

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

Crawford's 1977 computer analysis of 34 tablets found none of the statistical characteristics of a natural-language text when compared with Basque, Berber, Chinese, Finnish and Iberian corpora.

Suggestive0

## What it means

Key question[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)

4 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Signs copied from alphabet tables without linguistic order](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/answers/ANS0DEDWTV74PBH/signs-copied-from-alphabet-tables-without-linguistic-order)

Supports2 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 3

1

Transcribe the 44 legible tablets of Morlet's Corpus (pp. 69-90, MOM scan) into a sign-occurrence table keyed to Morlet's 111 sign numbers, with line and position, and publish it as a dataset.

~16 h

[On: 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)

**—** not judged

2

Transcribe Morlet's Corpus tablets into a sign-occurrence table and rerun Crawford's test against natural-language and random-alphabet null models.

~24 h

[On: 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)

**—** not judged

3

Repeat Crawford's 1977 test on the full transcription: sign-frequency rank curve, conditional entropy and repeated n-gram counts, compared with natural-language controls and a null model of random draws from Phoenician and Iberian sign tables.

~8 h

[On: 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)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 1

[Les tablettes inscrites de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHS3DCJ7S/les-tablettes-inscrites-de-glozel)

Crawford 1977

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Crawford's 1977 computer analysis of 34 tablets found none of the statistical characteristics of a natural-language… [Evidence EVD0DEDY9F72CWK]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDY9F72CWK
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