# Mukhopadhyay 2019: Interrogating Indus inscriptions to unravel their mechanisms of meaning conveyance

> Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay, 2019. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. A recent logographic reading of how the inscriptions carry meaning.

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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.

**Indus scriptSecondary source** Articledoi: **[10.1057/s41599-019-0274-1](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0274-1)** Checked 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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