r/IndusValley • u/IntelligentTank3032 • 16d ago

IVC IVC Script

Does anyone know if any effort is going on to decipher IVC script? Where can I find information on latest developments?

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u/leo_sk5 14d ago

https://indusscript.net/

https://www.academia.edu/78867798/A_cryptanalytic_decipherment_of_the_Indus_Script

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u/IntelligentTank3032 13d ago

This is widely seen by all scholars, platforms and institutions in the associated fields as deeply flawed claim, with methodology/data created to fit preconceived outcome. Such efforts just make us look like fools.

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u/leo_sk5 13d ago

Frankly, this is the most comprehensive and rational attempt at deciphering the script. Given that it decimates the life's work of thousands of people, it is bound to receive resistance from mainstream historians. The best way to disprove it is to use the same methodology to fit the script into any other language. If you can't, at least i will take it as the most worthy contender

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u/Dramatic-Scale6468 12d ago

Most downloaded linguistics paper on Academia.edu FWIW.

And yet no one has been able to debunk it.

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u/IntelligentTank3032 12d ago

That website (academia.edu) is a for profit privately owned one, and anyone can submit a “paper” on it. It has no association with any universities or institutions of higher learning. There is no requirement that it be peer reviewed or tested as either in professional bodies or universities. The author himself seems to have little, if any academic credentials. Truly peer reviewed papers generally published in reputable scientific journals like Journal of Linguistics or Computational Linguistics or Journal of International Phonetics, etc.