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Detecting word boundaries in an undeciphered script: The Byblos syllabary

Michael Mäder, 2022.

MYS0DEDM2A11RSG · mystery · click to copyMByblos syllabaryArticleCopy of Bronze tablet d (Dunand inscription d)doi: 10.22012/baf.2019.030

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BAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum 4 (2019 conference, published 2022), CC BY 4.0. The first computational treatment: the corpus (15 inscriptions plus 28 tentatively assigned fragments) transcribed with one Unicode private-use character per sign variant and run through a sequence-analysis tool to find morphemes and word boundaries; the largest text has 461 discernible signs.

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Michael Mäder (2022). Detecting word boundaries in an undeciphered script: The Byblos syllabary. https://doi.org/10.22012/baf.2019.03
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