Re:Switzerland's mysterious fourth language
by ekianjo on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:20PM
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> Nobody speaks ancient Egyptian but we can still translate their hieroglyphs
Bad example. We know how to decipher hieroglyphs because we discovered that there were actually equivalent to another language that was well known at the time. There's tons of other languages we have no idea idea how to decipher, such as Linear A.
Bad example. We know how to decipher hieroglyphs because we discovered that there were actually equivalent to another language that was well known at the time. There's tons of other languages we have no idea idea how to decipher, such as Linear A.