Constructing word similarities in Meroitic as an aid to decipherment

Details Constructing word similarities in Meroitic as an aid to decipherment Constructing word similarities in Meroitic as an aid to decipherment

2008-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/0808.3616v3

British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan, 12, 1-10 (2009)

Computer Science

Computation and Language

10 pages; 2 figures; to appear in British Museum studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan

Scientific paper

Meroitic is the still undeciphered language of the ancient civilization of Kush. Over the years, various techniques for decipherment such as finding a bilingual text or cognates from modern or other ancient languages in the Sudan and surrounding areas has not been successful. Using techniques borrowed from information theory and natural language statistics, similar words are paired and attempts are made to use currently defined words to extract at least partial meaning from unknown words.

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