JAL328H1 Lecture Notes - Proto-Sinaitic Script, Kharosthi, Inherent Vowel
Document Summary
Indic script has huge variety spread from india over a huge area and philippines. Once reached an area, they made ichagnes to make the script th. Cannot tell if separate characters or different versions of separate characters. Some people think it"s related to mesopotamia weird version of cuneiform or at least the idea of writing diffused from mesopotamia to india like egyptians getting idea from cuneiform. So some people think indus valley writing originated from these two sources. Ethic ramifications in modern day in how to decipher the indus valley script do not know the language that the script is written in so have to choose which language it is very carefully. A lot of people wan to claim indus valley script as their own language a lot of racism in those regions; fighting amongst them problematic to try to claim this ancient script as their language. After indus valley script no writing no evidence of writing for 1500 years.
