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URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-savifadok-1203
URL: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/volltexte/2008/120/
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The Languages of Harappa: Early Linguistic Data and the Indus civilization
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SWD-Schlagwörter:
Harappakultur , Schrift , Sprache
Freie Schlagwörter (Deutsch):
Harappa , Induskultur , Schrift , Sprache
Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):
Harappa , Indus civilization , Languages
DDC-Sachgruppe:
Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Dokumentart:
Aufsatz
Schriftenreihe:
Kleine Schriften von Michael Witzel
Bandnummer:
13
Sprache:
Englisch
Erstellungsjahr:
2000
Publikationsdatum:
17.04.2008
Kurzfassung in Englisch:
Each year, or as it seems, by now every other month, we see a new decipherment of the Indus script. Beyond G. Possehl's fifty-odd examples (Possehl 1996), there must be some dozens more, by now frequently found on the internet. However, as is well known, neither is the script itself well understood nor do we know on which language it is based and for which languages it has been used. In this paper, I am not going to add myself to the long list of failures of decipherment of the script. Instead, I think we should first prepare the ground
for such undertaking by investigating the peculiarities of the script itself, a task that has not been carried systematically enough (Wells 1998). Secondly, we should take a much closer look at the various sources which may indicate which languages were spoken in the core areas of the Indus civilization, in the Greater Panjab and in Sindh-Baluchistan.
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