Decipherment

In philology, decipherment is the discovery of the meaning of texts written in ancient or obscure languages or scripts.[1]

  1. ^ Trask, R.L (2000). The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, p. 82 ("The process of determining the relation between an extinct and unknown writing system and the language it represents. Strictly, decipherment is the elucidation of the script—that is, determining the values of the written characters")

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