# Rao 2009: Entropic Evidence for Linguistic Structure in the Indus Script

> Rajesh P. N. Rao, Nisha Yadav, Mayank N. Vahia et al., 2009. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The surveys cite it as a case where a single…

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# Entropic Evidence for Linguistic Structure in the Indus Script

Rajesh P. N. Rao, Nisha Yadav, Mayank N. Vahia et al., 2009. _Science_.

Argues that the undeciphered Indus script encodes language, because its conditional entropy falls closer to natural languages than to several non-linguistic sign systems.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1126/science.1170391](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1170391)** Checked against the original0

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The surveys cite it as a case where a single statistic was made to carry a whole conclusion; its entropy argument is already covered by the project's entropy profile.

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Rao, R. P. N., Yadav, N., Vahia, M. N., Joglekar, H., Adhikari, R., & Mahadevan, I. (2009). Entropic Evidence for Linguistic Structure in the Indus Script. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1170391
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