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To: chajin

Generally the Harappan seals are considered to be a form of writing; there’s a couple of computer science geeks who claim they’ve fed in all the seals and their program has determined that it *doesn’t* hide a language. Most regard the language expressed by the script as being agglutinative, which probably isn’t surprising, since a great big chunk of Asia (and some outliers, like Turkey) speaks agglutinative languages. The largest agglutinative population in modern India (I believe) is Dravidian, but I don’t believe anyone has linked spoken Dravidian with the seals. I’d be surprised if a bilingual is never found, and I’d also be surprised if Harappan doesn’t turn out to be a language isolate, more or less.


17 posted on 02/06/2014 4:42:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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@SunkenCiv: thank you for the update! I would have guessed Dravidian to be the largest agglutinative group, given the general perception that they were the "indigenous" inhabitants. നന്ദി
20 posted on 02/06/2014 6:56:04 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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