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Indus (Sindhu-Saraswati)Valley Civilization
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Speech, Expression and Language
• Speech, Expression and Language are natural to humans• It is claimed to be hard wired into their brains• It is said that it is as old as consciousness• Script is a system or protocol of symbols and signs that is
used to communicate• Human activity reported in Punjab close to 2.5 million
years(Outlook India, March 28,2016) • Indus signs signify a script
(Hunter,Possehl,Parpola,Mahadevan, Rao, Yadav,Joglekaretc.)
• Many languages may have been written in this script just as Brahmi and Cuneiform have been used to write many languages.
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Area of Indus Valley Civilization
• More than 1 million kilometers
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Sources of Script: Seals and Tablets
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417 common signs and symbols( Mahadevan: The Indus Script)
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Signs and Symbols
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Sign and Symbols
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Signs and Symbols
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Decipherment
Comparative MethodInternal Analysis or Reconstruction100 claims of Decipherment
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Comparative Method
• This method compares scripts of similar nature with each other to decipher a particular scripts based on similar phonetic valuations. Known scripts and languages are compared with unknown.
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Internal Analysis and Reconstruction• This method analyzes the internal patterns of
frequency of signs and then uses the possible phonetic valuations in languages found in the region. Computer analysis of Indus script has shown intermediate entropy, characteristic of language.(Rajesh Rao)
• Rebus and Acrology have been used to decipher the script. Rebus is a thing that stands for a sound. Acrology is a thing whose first sound is used as the first letter. For instance fish symbol in Tamil is Meen so it is taken to be M or Ma.
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Decipherment Claims
• It is an Indo Aryan Language• It is Dravidian or proto Dravidian Language• It is not a language but seals depict signs and
symbols• It is a script for many languages spoken in the area
at the time.
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Indo Aryan or Sanskrit( Hunter)
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Brahmi Script and Indus Script
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iSanskrit Decipherment(Jey Kumar Ramasami,Sci News Feb.21,2014)
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Sanskrit Acrology(Jey Kumar Ramasami SCI News,Feb.21,2014)
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Sanskrit
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Dravidian or Proto Dravidian Claims• This claim is based on analyzing the writing on the
seals as Rebus or pictograms. Each sign standing for the first letter of a Tamil word. Knorzov, Porpolaand Mahadevan amongst others make this claim.
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Egyptian and Indus Script(Mahadevan)
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Dravidian Claims(Mahadevan)
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Dravidian Claims
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Dravidian Claims
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Semblance with Tamil and Kannada(Current Science Vol.103,No.3,10August 2012)
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Indus Seal and Gondi Language
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Dholvira Signboard: Siva Temple?
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Dholvira SignboardSantali• Dhokra Kamar : Metal Workshop ?
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Indus Seals Do Not Depict A Script
• Seals depict signs and symbols used in religious or commercial transactions. It is also claimed that the writing is just numerals. Farmer, Sproat and Witzel, Subrayappa, Shengde are some of the people who make this claim.
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Seals Depict Unknown Symbols
• Symbols on the seals can not be accepted as evidence of writing.
• Indus Civilization was not a literate civilization. Proponents of this view give examples of other civilizations which did not develop writing.
• That Indus Civilization was literate is an assumption not proven by evidence
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One Script Many Languages
• There were probably many languages spoken in the 1 million square kilometers as they are today. Some of the suggested languages are Indo Aryan languages, Dradivian, Mundari, Tibetan, Language X etc. Script may be the same but the languages were different just as Cuneiform was used for many languages in Mesopatamia and Brahmi was used for many languages in India
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Literature of IndusNarrative or StoryMusic and Dance
RitualsManuals of City Plannning,Water Mangamement ,Weights etc.
Bills of Sales
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Literature of Indus :Narrative Seals
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Narrative Seals
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Narrative Seal and Tablet
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Music,dance and singing
Mortimer Wheeler reported finding musical instruments such as drums and seven holed flute in
his excavations at Mohen Jo Daro
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Rituals
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Rituals
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Manuals and billsWe can deduce from developed city
planning,trade,water management and standardization of weights and measurements that
such literature must have come into being.Bills of Sales for transactions must have also arisen
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Further Directions for Research
• What was the Relationship between Indus and Vedic Literature ?
• Rig Veda has substratum of Para Munda and other languages, What is their relationship?
• Was Indus Valley Civilization Vedic? as claimed by several scholars?
• What is the relationship between Indus languages , tribal languages and other languages spoken today in the Indian Sub Continent?
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