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What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

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Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that’s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A, the writing system of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization on the Greek island of Crete, has neither. Linear A is described as a “language isolate

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Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that’s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to.

Linear A, the writing system of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization on the Greek island of Crete, has neither. Linear A is described as a “language isolate” because it has no confirmed link to any known language, living or dead.

As such, it has posed a significant challenge for linguists over the past century. Etruscan , a language of Italy that was used before the rise of the Roman Empire, has fared only slightly better.

A partial vocabulary has been collected from short funerary inscriptions, but its grammar and deeper meaning still elude linguists. Read full article Comments

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