Proto-Elamite A script which first appeared in about 2900 BC in Suse (Susa), the capital of Elam, in south-western Persia (modern Iran). It has yet to be deciphered and the language it represents in unknown.

Proto-Elamite. This ancient writing system was used more than 5000 years ago in what is now Iran.

The Indus Inscriptions Fewer inscriptions are found on clay tablets, pottery and metal objects. With an average of just 4 or 5 signs, the brevity of most inscriptions poses a challenge for decipherment efforts. It’s also among the reasons that some scholars argue these characters are not true writing.

An undeciphered writing system is a written form of language that is not currently understood….Bronze Age scripts

• Indus script – c.
• Proto-Elamite – Elam, c.
• Linear Elamite, c.
• Linear A, c.
• Cretan hieroglyphs, c.
• Cypro-Minoan syllabary, c.
• Phaistos Disc, c.

In spite of many attempts, the ‘script’ has not yet been deciphered, but efforts are ongoing. There is no known bilingual inscription to help decipher the script, and the script shows no significant changes over time.

Generally recognized as the world’s expert on the Indus script, Asko Parpola has been studying this undeciphered writing for over 40 years at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

In philology, decipherment is the discovery of the meaning of texts written in ancient or obscure languages or scripts. Decipherment in cryptography refers to decryption. The term is used sardonically in everyday language to describe attempts to read poor handwriting.

The Indus (or Harappan) people used a pictographic script. The Indus script is an unknown writing system, and the inscriptions discovered are very short, comprising no more than five signs on the average.

Pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. Some pictograms, such as Hazards pictograms, are elements of formal languages.

The Harappan script is called enigmatic because of the following reasons: Most inscriptions were short, the longest contained about 26 signs, each sign stood for a vowel or consonant. Sometimes it contained wider space, sometimes shorter, had no consistency. Till today, the script remains undeciphered.

Explanation: Pictorial script is a script which uses pictures and symbols. Chinese, Korean and Japanese use pictorial scripts.

Explanation: Man feel need for the script because our past is very lengthy and important. But it was very difficult to learn and keep in mind this a lengthy thing. so, to keep it for Everytime the historians wrote manuscript and other kinds of scripts.

The cuneiform script, created in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, ca. 3200 BC, was first. It is also the only writing system which can be traced to its earliest prehistoric origin. This antecedent of the cuneiform script was a system of counting and recording goods with clay tokens.

How many languages have a written form? According to Ethnologue, 4,065 language currently have a written form. However many are rarely written, or few of the people who speak them are able to read and write them.

ARABIC

Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet, also called Roman alphabet, the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the standard script of the English language and the languages of most of Europe and those areas settled by Europeans.

1. Which is the most beautiful writing script/alphabet ?

• Chinese (Hanzi/漢字）
• Japanese (Kanji/Hiragana/Katakana)
• Arabic.
• Manchu.
• Korean.
• Latin Alphabet.
• Cyrillic Alphabet.
• Tagalog.