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Interrogating Indus inscriptions to unravel their mechanisms of meaning conveyance

Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay, 2019. Palgrave Communications (now Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) 5.

Argues from co-occurrence and positional patterns that most Indus inscriptions are logographic, not phonetic, and served as administrative data-carriers like Mesopotamian tablets; assigns no sound values and no language.

MYS0CWY3A6018QP · mystery · click to copyMIndus scriptSecondary sourceArticledoi: 10.1057/s41599-019-0274-1Checked against the original0

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A recent logographic reading of how the inscriptions carry meaning.

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Mukhopadhyay, B. A. (2019). Interrogating Indus inscriptions to unravel their mechanisms of meaning conveyance. Palgrave Communications (now Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) 5. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0274-1
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