Entropic evidence for linguistic structure in the Indus script.
The script of the ancient Indus civilization remains undeciphered. The hypothesis that the script encodes language has recently been questioned. Here, we present evidence for the linguistic hypothesis by showing that the script's conditional entropy is closer to those of natural languages than various types of nonlinguistic systems.
Rao
Rajesh P N
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. rao@cs.washington.edu
Yadav
Nisha
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Vahia
Mayank N
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Joglekar
Hrishikesh
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Adhikari
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Mahadevan
Iravatham
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