Deciphering the Indus Script as a Cryptogram | Yajnadevam | #sangamtalks
666Lets delve into the Indus script, its history & evolution alongwith different scripts. An approach will be built to solve it as a cryptogram & determine the language & its decipherment. Also, its abugida nature, base & composite signs, word boundaries, relationship with Brahmi script & evolution of 81 allophones & variants will be discussed. Then, the Indic/Vedic concepts inscribed on seals & correctness & falsifiability of approaches will be done.
Speaker:
Yajnadevam is a cryptographer & computer programmer interested in political theory, linguistics, ancient manuscripts & history. Combining his broad experience in languages & scripts together with programming & regular expressions, he will present his decipherment of the Indus script.
For more of Yajnadevam's work, please visit: https://independent.academia.edu/yajnadevam
Sub-Topics:
0:00 Introduction to the topic
0:41 The Indus Script - A Background
3:17 Indus Script Problem
4:38 Parpola's decipherment as Tamil
5:45 S.R. Rao's segmental as Sanskrit
6:18 Speaker's Decipherment Approach
7:14 Kinds of Scripts that exist
12:48 Indus Script : Segmental/Syllabic
14:23 Deciphering messages made of unknown symbols
15:35 Cryptograms
16:36 Using Regex to find words
18:33 Regular Expressions - Short words
20:14 Evolution of Signs and Sign classification
21:55 Sign variants
23:46 What if the sign identifications are wrong?
24:41 Language : Try them all...the right one will fit
25:28 The first 2 Signs of the Indus Script and its decipherment by the Speaker
26:39 Evolution of Science over 1500 years
27:59 Ordering by phoneme
29:12 Directional and word boundary marker
29:52 Brahmi script for decipherment
30:46 Some interesting inscriptions
31:49 The Dholavira signboard
32:15 The Magadha coin
32:33 Black buck inscription
32:58 Usha Tamra inscription
33:15 Chariot inscription
33:38 Wedding inscription
33:50 Vedic terms
34:06 Pashupati seal
34:26 Vedic altars
34:56 Deities in the inscriptions
35:28 Correctness of Speaker's decipherment of the Indus Script
38:04 Criticisms of Speaker's decipherment of the Indus Script
39:41 Falsifiability of Speaker's decipherment of the Indus Script
42:02 Implications of Speaker's decipherment of the Indus Script
Q&A
43:55 Connections drawn between symbols and Brahmi would help bridge the Aryan-Dravidian divide problem?
48:34 Is it guesswork? What about numbers in the Indus script?
52:03 Is mainstream academia interested in Speaker's decipherment? How is the conclusion drawn by the Speaker that India is the homeland of early Indo-Europeans?
55:15 Are there more long descriptions available? In terms of language Brahmi was used as a base for many other languages apart from Sanskrit, so how can that be segmented?
57:42 Whether these symbols match with other contemporary civilizations of those times?
58:56 Why is it that we have different symbols representing the same syllable in the Speaker's decipherment?
1:00:47 Does the semitic family include the Aramaic and Finnisian as well which claims that the Brahmi script was modelled on it? Indus valley script and Harappan script are co-terminus?
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