# About 50 to 60 basic glyphs, combined into ligatures, account for nearly the whole corpus.

> Most likely: About 50 to 60 basic glyphs, combined into ligatures, account for nearly the whole corpus.

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# About 50 to 60 basic glyphs, combined into ligatures, account for nearly the whole corpus.

About 50 to 60 basic glyphs, combined into ligatures, account for nearly the whole corpus.

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

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Re-running the merge of allographs on Horley's tracings yields a similar count.
- Ligatures decompose consistently into the basic glyphs.

## What would rule it out

- Independent palaeographic analysis of the tracings shows many of the merged forms are distinct signs with distinct distributions.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[52 glyphs cover 99.7 per cent of occurrences after merging allographs and ligatures.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/evidence/EVD0D4CCJFM6545/52-glyphs-cover-99-7-per-cent-of-occurrences-after-merging)

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## The questions it answers

[How many distinct glyphs does rongorongo have?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/questions/QST0D4CCDKC5T7B/how-many-distinct-glyphs-does-rongorongo-have)

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

Most likelyAbout 50 to 60 basic glyphs, combined into ligatures, account for nearly the whole corpus

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Mysteries Department. (2026). About 50 to 60 basic glyphs, combined into ligatures, account for nearly the whole corpus. [Answer ANS0D4CCJ7T32A2]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D4CCJ7T32A2
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