# Rongorongo is glottographic writing (logosyllabic or syllabic) recording the Rapanui language.

> Most likely: Rongorongo is glottographic writing (logosyllabic or syllabic) recording the Rapanui language.

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# Rongorongo is glottographic writing (logosyllabic or syllabic) recording the Rapanui language.

Rongorongo is glottographic writing (logosyllabic or syllabic) recording the Rapanui language.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: three pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The basic glyph inventory is of the size expected for a syllabary or logosyllabary (tens to a few hundred signs) and its frequency profile matches Rapanui syllable statistics.
- Repeated phrases align across texts with regular substitutions consistent with inflection or name replacement.
- Sign-position statistics (initial, final) differ from random and resemble those of a language.

## What would rule it out

- Glyph sequences show no positional regularities beyond those of a random arrangement of pictures, or the inventory cannot be bounded.

## Evidence 3 for · 1 against

[52 basic glyphs account for 99.7 per cent of the corpus and their frequency distribution resembles that of…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/evidence/EVD0D4CCEJM1R27/52-basic-glyphs-account-for-99-7-per-cent-of-the-corpus-and)

Suggestive

FOR

[A repetitive run on text G with a recurring marker glyph is structured like a genealogy.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/evidence/EVD0D4CCF287Q1K/a-repetitive-run-on-text-g-with-a-recurring-marker-glyph-is)

Suggestive

FOR

[The same compound glyphs and repeated phrases occur on tablets held on different continents.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/evidence/EVD0D4CCETE4XYF/the-same-compound-glyphs-and-repeated-phrases-occur-on)

Supported

FOR

[No phonetic reading of any passage has survived testing in 150 years.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/evidence/EVD0D4CCFA21BZA/no-phonetic-reading-of-any-passage-has-survived-testing-in)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Does rongorongo record language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/questions/QST0D4CCD3R70F2/does-rongorongo-record-language)

Most likelyRongorongo is proto-writing or a mnemonic system that cued recited texts without encoding them phonetically

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