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Research questions are the building block of our platform of scientific inquiry. Key questions are the ones at the heart of a mystery; every other question helps answer one of them.

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Indus script
Indus script2 key questions · 4 questions · 0 answered
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QuestionWhere it stands
Most likelyThe signs are a logo-syllabic writing system that encodes a spoken language
Most likelySuch measures do not discriminate reliably, so the Indus question cannot be settled from the corpus…
Most likelyThe signs record an early Dravidian language