What is it about?
The most important of 5 publications I have done together with my co-author to present the decipherment of the Indus Valley Script and define the language conveyed by it as an z-Altaic language.
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Why is it important?
The long standing mystery of the Indus Language Script along with its underlying language, ethnicity and culture, is definitely solved. It was an easy syllabic script of 67 syllabograms, based on the rebus principle, rendering a language closely related to Sumerian, old Turkic, and other Altaic languages.. The proximity to Minoan and especially CyproMinoan scripts clearly indicates cultural contacts.
Perspectives
Although the basics are clear and the readings of the inscriptions given in our publications are confirmed, I am still working by transcribing every inscription found in photograph, and in this process our previous publications are enriched by corrections and additions, which do not negatively affect but rather reinforce our main theory. Results of these process are being added at the bottom of this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bgAHwp7sG4ldmOg2l7Zw0cArgJw1bE8i6iqy7SaA4OI/edit?usp=sharing.
Ioannis Kenanidis
University of Crete, faculty of philology
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This page is a summary of: An Estimate of the Indus Valley Language Phonology, Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science, August 2025, Quest Journals,
DOI: 10.35629/9467-1308171194.
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