Indus script does encode a language: New study reported in Science shows it was no mere ‘chain of symbols’
Chennai: Computation science, information theory, and machine learning have now come to the vindication of Indus Valley scholars – providing a new type of “quantitative evidence for the existence of linguistic structure in the Indus script, complementing other arguments that have been made explicitly or implicitly in favour of the linguistic hypothesis.” This quantitative evidence comes from the results of a statistical study published online recently in the journal Science ( http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1170391v1).
(Excerpt from http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/27/stories/2009042756902000.htm)
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Professor Asko Parpola seems to agree with Rao et al:
http://www.harappa.com/script/indus-writing.pdf
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