# Wikipedia contributors n.d.: Decipherment of rongorongo

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# Decipherment of rongorongo

Wikipedia contributors, n.d.. _Wikipedia_.

Survey of every decipherment attempt from Jaussen's Metoro sessions to Fischer, with the critiques of each (Guy, Pozdniakov, Sproat, Melka, Robinson) and the calendar and genealogy readings.

**Rongorongo** Web pageChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Used as a map of the literature; the papers it summarises are cited where they could be confirmed.

## Cited by on this site 8 records

[Rongorongo is proto-writing or a mnemonic system that cued recited texts without encoding them phonetically.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/answers/ANS0D4CCFHW6WKQ/rongorongo-is-proto-writing-or-a-mnemonic-system-that-cued)

Answer

ANS

[The passage is a list of night names or a mnemonic for a chant about the moon, not a working calendar.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/answers/ANS0D4CCM6A2CGF/the-passage-is-a-list-of-night-names-or-a-mnemonic-for-a)

Answer

ANS

[No phonetic reading of any passage has survived testing in 150 years.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/evidence/EVD0D4CCFA21BZA/no-phonetic-reading-of-any-passage-has-survived-testing-in)

Evidence

EVD

[Only about 63 sequences on the Staff fit the triad structure even generously.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/evidence/EVD0D4CCMXR5D8H/only-about-63-sequences-on-the-staff-fit-the-triad-structure)

Evidence

EVD

[The Staff remains a statistical outlier against the other texts even with glyph 76 removed.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/evidence/EVD0D4CCNDC4G85/the-staff-remains-a-statistical-outlier-against-the-other)

Evidence

EVD

[The field has not adopted the reading; later surveys list it with the rejected attempts.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo/evidence/EVD0D4CCNX03BH8/the-field-has-not-adopted-the-reading-later-surveys-list-it)

Evidence

EVD

[Rongorongo](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rongorongo)

The mystery article

MYS

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

Question

QST

## Cite it

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Wikipedia contributors (n.d.). Decipherment of rongorongo. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_rongorongo
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