# Michael Mäder · Person

> Swiss linguist (University of Bern; Gesellschaft für die Entzifferung antiker Schriftsysteme) who transcribed the Byblos corpus into Unicode private-use…

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# Michael Mäder

Swiss linguist (University of Bern; Gesellschaft für die Entzifferung antiker Schriftsysteme) who transcribed the Byblos corpus into Unicode private-use characters, ran the first computational word-boundary analysis in 2019, proposed the values me and pa from a seal bilingual in 2023, and co-wrote the 2024 assessment of the Best/Woudhuizen decipherment.

[The Byblos syllabary](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary)[2 events][3 sources]

Michael Mäder is swiss linguist, University of Bern and GEAS; leads the computational and Unicode work on the Byblos script, and appears in the record of Byblos syllabary as swiss linguist (University of Bern; Gesellschaft für die Entzifferung antiker Schriftsysteme) who transcribed the Byblos corpus into Unicode private-use characters, ran the first computational word-boundary analysis in 2019, proposed the values me and pa from a seal bilingual in 2023, and co-wrote the 2024 assessment of the Best/Woudhuizen decipherment.

Two events on the site involve Mäder, from Benjamin Sass argues for a ninth-century date; Michael Mäder presents the first computational word-boundary analysis (2019) to Schmutz and Mäder find the Best and Woudhuizen decipherment unfalsifiable; Byblos objects shown in Leiden (2024).

Three questions rest in part on what Mäder did or said, among them “Can any sound values be fixed from external evidence, such as the Akhenaten-daughters seal or the Egyptian parent signs?”, which stands no evidence yet.

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## In the mysteries

**The Byblos syllabary**

2 events

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary)

[Can any sound values be fixed from external evidence, such as the Akhenaten-daughters seal or the Egyptian parent signs?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQKMXR41/can-any-sound-values-be-fixed-from-external-evidence-such-as)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

[Do the finds assigned to the script outside Byblos (Megiddo, Egypt, Italy) really belong to it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDR0755DC4/do-the-finds-assigned-to-the-script-outside-byblos-megiddo)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

[Do the word boundaries and recurring morphemes found by sequence analysis fit the grammar of any proposed language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQZKNHJD0/do-the-word-boundaries-and-recurring-morphemes-found-by)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

## What Michael Mäder did 2

2019[Benjamin Sass argues for a ninth-century date; Michael Mäder presents the first computational word-boundary analysis](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/events/EVT0DEDMVSTE58R/benjamin-sass-argues-for-a-ninth-century-date-michael-mader)

2024[Schmutz and Mäder find the Best and Woudhuizen decipherment unfalsifiable; Byblos objects shown in Leiden](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/events/EVT0DEDMW3CRC85/schmutz-and-mader-find-the-best-and-woudhuizen-decipherment)

## Sources 3

[Detecting word boundaries in an undeciphered script: The Byblos syllabary](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGFCJ9NS7/detecting-word-boundaries-in-an-undeciphered-script-the)

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[Die Byblos-Schrift: Beurteilung des Entzifferungsvorschlags von F. Woudhuizen und J. Best anhand der GEAS-Methodologie](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGQS0Y0KV/die-byblos-schrift-beurteilung-des-entzifferungsvorschlags)

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[Byblos: first sound value proposal based on external evidence (GEAS news, 1 July 2023)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGR7ECH4T/byblos-first-sound-value-proposal-based-on-external-evidence)

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