The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack

[@priyanshuranjan3088]

Moral of the story: if you don't wanna die soon then don't mess with linear B.

[@acmiguens]

Agreed. Even Tin Tin (2:28) didn't make it

[@shriyanshranjan4710]

Lol bro😂

[@shriyanshranjan4710]

Are you from bihar too?

[@priyanshuranjan3088]

@@acmiguens well u are right! He looks like Tintin. Even this reporter/detective didn't make it😂

[@priyanshuranjan3088]

@@shriyanshranjan4710 yup! U too? Nice to meet you 🤗

[@JaybeePenaflor]

Hats off to the scholars and linguists who devoted their time and efforts in deciphering some of our ancient languages. While it's true that for some of these ancient scripts there were records inscribed on manuscripts together with known languages that aided in translation (e.g., the Rosetta Stone and the Behistun Rock), the labor to actually perform the linguistic analysis is still intensive. I hope through research and mathematics, we can improve our linguistic tools even further and, we can finally decode other languages such as those in the ancient writings in Mohenjo-Daro as well as the bewildering Voynich manuscript.

[@otakuxgirl6]

Well written 👏

[@bakhtiarsaleem5060]

Actually there are many people in my city's University trying to decode Indus script

[@JesusSanchez-ul1qq]

I believe that linguistics is the perfect field to test and apply AI. But not just for deciphering dead systems, but to unveil the patterns that structure still spoken yet dying languages of today, before it's too late. I beg for someone to puts hands onto it!.

[@ergenekonualkslayanliberal1077]

@@JesusSanchez-ul1qq Search wikitongue. I don't know if a.i. can create miracles. I think this can help.

[@TheRei111111]

@@JesusSanchez-ul1qq Thats a really good insight for using AI

[@neelanjanaanne7904]

I was wondering now , how many historians are gonna dedicate their life to solving this 2nd puzzle . 🤔

[@MammothBehemoth]

Dont have to be an academic historian to solve these sort of puzzles. Sometimes, ordinary people just happen to make the break from other puzzles in other fields

[@hhfbko]

Sad

[@OmPrakash-wl3br]

*lives

[@rmdhn1]

i think the langauge made them dedicate their lifes fullly since they all died early

[@deneb6139]

@Anon i see where are you coming from...

[@matheusmagno3121]

“Language is the foundation of civilization. It is a glue that holds people together, and it is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.”

[@saroj3462]

Well my first weapon are my legs though

[@reuzohvestioridecan1125]

@@saroj3462 were your enemies ants?

[@pragatheeseswaran7023]

Arrival, I watched it 2 days back. Language opens perspectives, it rewires our brains. 💯

[@saroj3462]

@@reuzohvestioridecan1125 Nah I cut people's leg and use them as weapon

[@alokbaluni8760]

@@pragatheeseswaran7023 languages are made for communication. There is no point in learning languages. Most of the time they are useless

[@sebastianelytron8450]

Ancient scripts are very confusing. It's all Greek to me.

[@IHatePeopleOfColor]

Cringe

[@insellarplays2445]

Cringe

[@kkrshares]

@@insellarplays2445 why ? EXPLAIN

[@valerietakudzwa5967]

The humour in this 😂

[@dianadi704]

It's an English humour. "It's all Greek to me" means it is very difficult to understand

[@gabrielleangelobautista7809]

Deciphering an ancient writing really opens a window to lost cultures and civilizations, but there will come a time that our way of writing will be someday undecipherable and there will be people that will decipher it

[@xeno4162]

That's intriguing

[@taygrcikifeys9736]

I think because we have pictured dictionaries created for kids, it won't be as hard as Linear B.

[@xeno4162]

@@taygrcikifeys9736 You are right.

[@tylim88]

I think this is unlikely because now we have technology that is far superior in preserving and spread the information, unless a meteor hit earth and reset our civilazation

[@gabrielleangelobautista7809]

Well advanced and great civilizations tends to have a tragic end, while some survive to this day but others only left remnants only to be solved for many years. So I guess it will depend on how will it work out in the future.

[@ashnahkhalidkhan2244]

I never thought I'd find something so educational so interesting. TED-Ed, you inspire curiosity in the best of ways. The people behind this whole platform are invaluable.

[@hautakleightontam771]

*You thought you had discovered a completely new language, but it was ME! GREEK!*

[@leonardowendhausen]

Is that a Rosetta Stone reference?

[@ornessarhithfaeron3576]

Pretty sure it's the "It was me, Dio!" meme that went viral some weeks/months ago

[@luciosobrinho7508]

There is nothing new under the sun

[@blitzwaffe]

AYAYAYAYAAYAYA

[@shivrajgove9370]

ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA

[@ShauryaSingh-ts2oc]

She: Why don't you get my signs? Her signs:

[@kalakritistudios]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LalanDesai]

😂😂

[@adityabagdi1178]

TedEd understands humour 😁

[@sanwaydsouza6482]

🤣

[@juansamudio1171]

This is so underrated

[@nexo7181]

Imagine how many language have died and never discovered

[@oneus6905]

Yeah that's right

[@deepstariaenigmatica2601]

@IdkGoodName Vilius how do you ascertain that?

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@IdkGoodName Vilius hM

[@Suite_annamite]

@@deepstariaenigmatica2601 We can guess that because of so-called *"killer languages"* : simply check out the *world's top 25 languages* , and almost all of them *developped and grew through war and conquest* , and ultimate *destruction of other societies and their native tongues.*

[@imokin86]

Most of them would be a good guess, since languages in pre-literate societies tend to be very small. There must have been thousands of languages spoken by small tribes that went extinct as these tribes were conquered or mixed into other peoples.

[@gekylafas]

Being a software engineer, I was particularly thrilled when while reading about Linear B I found out the the word for "data" (de-do-me-na) has remained unaltered for 3.000+ years, from Mycenaean to Modern Greek.

[@asicdathens]

It was an infusion of ancient Greek into common speaking language after the Greek Independence to get rid of Turkish and other foreign words from the common Greek. The Italian "Gazetta" was replaced by "Εφημερίδα". Some words like "περιθωράκιον" never made it and we still use the word "γιλέκο" . I believe this is how the word "δεδομένα" was reintroduced in Greek. My favorite thing about Linear B is that all we have are practically spreadsheets of things and people indicative that these things will still rule the world after we die. BTW I write SW for living as well

[@LM-qv7cy]

Both of you should decipher it

[@AlexChen0905]

Data actually came from Latin, but what you're describing here is the Greek cognate of that word.

[@gekylafas]

@@AlexChen0905 I think I was clear that I wasn't talking about the word "data" but the word *for* "data" in Greek, which is dedomena.

[@AlexChen0905]

@@gekylafas Oh ok. my bad

[@SeekersofUnity]

The artfulness of this animation is pure magic.

[@liaarfianti2999]

I love how people in World War times still have the chance to research something, big or small--even if it unrelated to the war at that time. And yes, it's seemed like the linear B brought its own 'curse', but at least their name was remembered forever in history.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

War isn't all blood-curdling fight for dear life. Most of the time it is a long monotonous bore mixed in with blood-curdling fight for dear life...

[@imokin86]

The Russian scholar Yuri Knorozov was studying ancient Egyptian during the war. He worked as a school teacher for most of the war because he wasn't fit for military service, but he had to escape from the advancing Germans more than once. After the war he went on to study the Mayan script and deciphered it.

[@sasidharankarthikeyan3798]

1:34 That Sanskrit sentence means "I don't understand". Ted ed, that's some craftily placed Easter egg.

[@thebluefriend]

Wow... where did you learn sanskrit? Do you live somewhere in the Gujarat area?

[@sasidharankarthikeyan3798]

@@thebluefriend I'm from Tamil Nadu. My grandfather was a Sanskrit scholar. I learnt a bit from him.

[@chiefscar7410]

Sasidharan Karthikeyan wow

[@thebluefriend]

@@sasidharankarthikeyan3798 ou

[@obrenock]

Ya the Irish translates to 'I don't understand' as well. Well played TED-Ed...

[@zestiestzest]

🌎🇬🇷 👨‍🚀"Wait it's all Greek?" 🔫👨‍🚀"Always has been"

[@navedbhati7591]

Underrated comment

[@gabrielzak.7942]

Lol

[@Ossian-dr1vr]

@Mirzə no

[@Shutupb1tch420]

Mirzə No, and frankly, I don’t care what it says unless you decipher it yourself

[@joshegede8476]

Ah a fellow memologist I see 🧐

[@BhanuPChauhan]

That language is cursed, for everyone who tries to decipher it dies in some way.

[@weirdreportt]

It's for some reason, intellectual people tend to die before their major breakthrough, or discovery.

[@anuj8825]

@@weirdreportt , Fermat 😭

[@The_Math_Enthusiast]

Wait a minute, does everyone not die in some way.

[@wagingus8078]

mumke wrote the language

[@PeridotFacet-FLCut-XG-og1xx]

Has there been anyone who do something and not die?

[@jcbgy3225]

What a legend, learning multiple languages just to decode one mysterious one. I can't even speak my own language fluently

[@mahatmaniggandhi2898]

i cant even make noises

[@Julia-vq8li]

When you’re trying to read through your class notes:

[@kalakritistudios]

Oof😂

[@kalakritistudios]

I was studying Computer Science back in school where we had to draw circuits with Logic Gates and it felt like The Matrix when I was flipping through my notes.

[@amandawilcox9638]

happy.thoughts-Ack! (Still Ack! decades later...😱)

[@amitavamozumder73]

for once I'm glad I was taught Sanskrit in school as a third language. I could actually understand the one on the blackboard. Ironically though it means "I don't understand" . LOL

[@NoraSeed_1508]

This is exactly what I am thinking. LOL

[@taiyeebmuhtadi]

@Varoon west Bengal

[@taiyeebmuhtadi]

@Varoon Nvm

[@naingchanmyae]

Ted-ed works really hard. I can’t believe they uploaded 2 videos in 2 days. Thanks for the hard work, Ted-ed ❤️

[@aadityachhitarka1938]

Can we appreciate the effort they put in each video!

[@sasidharankarthikeyan3798]

This reminded me of "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" in Sherlock Holmes.

[@harsh3624]

The decoding was very easy especially the e part of the dancing people

[@victorburcovschi3048]

You are A man of culture

[@paytonl3485]

I just read that last week!

[@sasidharankarthikeyan3798]

@@harsh3624 Yes! But Sherlock deduced it in 1892. At least 8 years before Sir Arthur Evans stumbled upon these tablets.

[@harsh3624]

@@sasidharankarthikeyan3798 btw Sherlock Holmes is not real. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes stories

[@Mucinsh]

These people are amazing. The time and passion or obsession they put in it is astonishing.

[@batyahazi8554]

Isn’t it interesting how they both died before being able to complete their work...

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@omikuron9716 クロン 오미

[@chanyeols6thstewardessgirl684]

@@ADeeSHUPA 앙~

[@vwvwvvvw4519]

@@ADeeSHUPA wow Japanese and Korean together

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@vwvwvvvw4519 YuP

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@vwvwvvvw4519 ネオ코스모

[@aaronm8143]

You have to be a literal genius to decode a dead language. The fact that they can figure out the sounds, and what the letters individually are is insane. Curious how accurate they are, if they truly decipher it.

[@parkjiminoppa8015]

The animations are amazing!! Editors and creators must put in so so much time and effort

[@IamJsb]

Whenever I see something related to decoding, decryption. I remember Alan Turing. How brilliant that man was 🙏 He built a machine that could decode 159e+18 settings. If you manually check each setting, like 10 settings per minute, it will take 30e+12 years to complete checking. Which is way more than the age of the universe.

[@nightfury2161]

I dont get it Patric star~

[@MarcTelang]

Alan Turing wasnt the first one to break the enigma machine

[@rekostarr7149]

@@nightfury2161 lol

[@IamJsb]

@@nightfury2161 During WW2. Germany were using encryption to deliver messages to their troops. There were 159 million million million possible languages. They can use any one of them to encrypt their message. They used one language per day (they changed the encrypting language every day). So, the job assigned to Alan Turing (he was in England) was to find out which language they are using. He had only 24 hrs to find the encrypted language as the language change every day. So, he had to find out one language out of 159 million million million languages. Can you imagine that 😱 If you start comparing the encrypted message with those of the 159 million million million languages given to you. It will take about 30 trillion years to check completely. *Forgive me, If my english is poor. Point out the grammar mistakes. I'm always ready to learn.

[@drrkprakash4178]

@@IamJsb How ? If it takes that much time then how did he do it,? By a machine maybe?

[@ОлегКозлов-ю9т]

2:33 this transition is simultaneously genius and terrifying

[@smileyaditya6718]

I just finished 'the code book' by Simon Singh which has a detailed account of not only linear b, but the Egyptian hyroglyphics and numerous ciphers & languages throughout history. If you find this vd interesting, highly recommend this book, might make quarantine lil more productive mayb

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

"The script was a syllabary, where each symbol represented both a consonant and a vowel--mixed with characters that each represented a whole word." Wow, that sounds a LOT like Japanese!

[@Moodboard39]

Chinese,actez

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

@@Moodboard39 The "characters that each represented a whole word" would describe Chinese. But "a syllabary, where each symbol represented both a consonant and a vowel" does not. At least not to my knowledge. But both of these apply to Japanese. Japanese has "kanji"--which are, in fact, (often modified) Chinese characters--each of which represents an idea/word, and it also had kana, which represent sounds (most of them represent a consonant sound + a vowel sound).

[@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е]

Japanese katakana and hiragana are syllabaries too.

[@lorismartinoperfetto6908]

I like how they have answeres for question I never thought about

[@IHatePeopleOfColor]

Cringe

[@kkrshares]

@@IHatePeopleOfColor you are cringe

[@xeno4162]

Exactly. Teded is my all time favourite channel.

[@lorismartinoperfetto6908]

@@xeno4162 yeah, it's one of the best information channel remaining on yt for sure

[@imadeyoureadthis9124]

@@IHatePeopleOfColor youre cringe

[@posterizedsoul4810]

Oh Wow! That starting quote was beautiful and awesome as ever.

[@Hello-bj2wp]

This is why i love to watch TedEd, they answer unasked questions.

[@pheubuselectric7893]

Thank you Ted-ed for these great videos, They really make quarantine time productive

[@Alkalus]

Duolingo: Practice 5 minutes a day or I’ll feed you to the Minotaur.

[@tonix1993]

Can't wait for "I am an apple" in Linear B

[@BioBrain]

@@tonix1993 Or "An apple eat a man" in Linear A :D

[@seemaairy4789]

Man I thought I was among the few who used it.

[@seemaairy4789]

@MC King can you explain (I am newbie) ?

[@fredericchopin7797]

I WANT TO LEARN NAHUATL, MIXTECO, AND ZAPOTECO

[@mixxipie]

In or out of school, I love watching your videos.

[@LisaMariavanHarmelen]

I am so grateful to all the people who dedicate their lives to learn and educate us about our history. It makes our lives so much more meaningful and interesting.

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

That's Greek history, and you're dutch or something.. so that's different.. lol

[@LisaMariavanHarmelen]

The Emir of Jaffa ... I mean the history of the world. And a name doesn’t even have to mean that you are a 100% from a certain country.

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

@@LisaMariavanHarmelen well I cant say you didn't have a point there..lol 👍

[@makandcheese7962]

Congratulations on 12 million subs

[@aurora-rx4kc]

In uni they haven't told us about Alice Kober,but only about Michael Ventris.The animation of the Minoan frescoes was very nice.😍

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Excellent video. Very interesting and worthwhile. A must see for everyone.

[@Kosteru-des]

I remember learning about Linear A and Linear B in primary school. Could never imagine it would be so hard to decipher a language.

[@Moodboard39]

How u know is just guessing

[@stories-of-elle]

I love this, your videos have inspired me to create my own animated videos, expressing my truth through them 🤍

[@mellytempest]

An amazing video once again! Big shoutout to Bethany Cutmore-Scott (the narrator) and Movult (the graphic animation company) for bringing this fascinating lesson to life. I love how Movult tried to mimic the design and the (known) colour palette of the ancient world's art then. Really ties in with the lesson.

[@marcowen1506]

Thanks for a very neat summary of the decipherment of Linear B. One thing it might be worth mentioning is that the Greek of Linear B is very old: about as similar to Classical Greek as Chaucer is to Modern English. So it's Greek, but not as we know it.

[@rania9534]

I have always wondered how historians decipher a language that is no longer spoken, good video😀

[@Moodboard39]

Is speculation, guess, how they going to known that

[@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е]

It was hard, but all scholars know classical Greek (no longer spoken too -- but known very well because of cultural importance). And modern living Greek is more or less descendent of these languages. What is really hard -- is deciphering language with NO living descendants. Like Etruscan, for example.

[@matcanary]

the simplicity of the script and the animation had me learn more than in my 18 years of school

[@greentea897]

At the end of the video you mention that Linear A has yet to be deciphered. I have already come across a decipherment attempt which I find convincing. The language is not Greek but Minoan. It is by Peter Revesz, a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has videos and articles. Beautifully illustrated video, and the illustrations are not only beautiful but also aid in comprehension.

[@medielijah]

That first quote is so beautiful! Love it!

[@0901강민재]

우리가 모르는 언어도 알아갈 수 있다는 것이 너무 신기하였습니다. 사람의 배우고 싶어하는 욕구가 정말 대단한것 같습니다. 재미있는 시간 되었습니다. 감사합니다.

[@philmay7834]

I’ve often wondered where languages come from. The fact that there are so many seems mysterious, seeing as how all people’s descended from the same bunch of ancestors. Even areas that were geographically close together could have completely different languages. It’s a great topic for thought.

[@Moodboard39]

Read the Bible. Not hard to known that

[@_jpg]

@@Moodboard39 I recommend historically accurate books

[@julesgosnell9791]

It works a bit like evolution - populations separate, mutations occur over time until two populations that were originally one are no longer recognisable as the same thing - rinse and repeat over thousands of years... - oh, and allow the populations to meet each other, exchange information, merge, split etc - a bit like mixing different colours of plasticine :-)

[@BHNative]

Aww, this is a good summary, but I thought there would be new stuff. Interesting stuff nonetheless. I wonder if we'll ever get closer to figuring Linear A out. These people were brilliant and very hardworking to have made such breakthroughs, I love Linguistics and the evolution of languages, and everything I learned related to this in college is obvious once the professor explains the logic, but I would never be able to figure it out myself.

[@shubhamagrawal1824]

I love watching contents in this channel. Lots of love and support from IIT B

[@JohnnyWalkerKat]

The interesting story about this is that a SIR find archaeological treasures of my country and he kept them locked. Nice!

[@benbezermendoza2175]

Lesson learned: do not decipher a language if you do not want to die yet

[@madlad255]

Some of my friends would love it! (mostly the toxic ones I try to avoid)

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@madlad255 hH

[@sin9139]

You have an informative contents ..... n ur channel inspire me to showcase my drawing skills to be a youtuber by the way thank you for teaching us more than our school teaches us

[@channackeshava7128]

Hahaha

[@SurveYashwanthRaoEWCS]

Its not too late to start anything

[@channakeshavac9271]

Hmmmmmmm

[@abhijitdey1320]

So Fascinating! Contains material for a full featured film.

[@thebismillahkitchen6082]

Last time I was this early the Minoans were still alive and flourishing

[@IHatePeopleOfColor]

Cringe

[@insellarplays2445]

What

[@Irondragon1945]

What's even the punchline of these?!

[@thebluefriend]

Said a 2000 year old guy

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

There was no internet when the minoans were around. Those primitives haven't even invented the wheel..lol

[@grod3an]

Ted Ed answers questions I didn't know exist! 👍

[@paleoph6168]

2:36 Nice Maxim-style machine gun with Bren gun magazine you got there.

[@IHatePeopleOfColor]

Cringe

[@naishavatsya4452]

Hwat

[@paleoph6168]

@@IHatePeopleOfColor HONG HONG HONG

[@PiroKUSS]

I liked the transitions!

[@QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” ― Rudyard Kipling

[@RounakKushwaha]

Try weed"

[@blueeye2281]

Salute to you for containing this amount of quotes in your brain.

[@madlad255]

@@blueeye2281 They just look them up, I think. But then again, if they're so early?

[@lonewanderer1495]

Surely you mean "cakes", mr. Kipling?

[@-Diwika-]

Nice video with nice animations again! Keep up with the great videos!!! 👍👍👍😄😄😄

[@capuchinosofia4771]

I was literally googling yesterday how to translate hieroglyphics.... Ted, are you watching me?

[@Hexanitrobenzene]

Google is watching you. And me...

[@eavyeavy2864]

Def not someone who add literally to everything

[@Moodboard39]

No they not watching you

[@capuchinosofia4771]

@@eavyeavy2864 i was actually studying it that subject matter for a final.. But yeah i do misuse literally sometimes

[@capuchinosofia4771]

@@Moodboard39 i know, it was a joke/hiperbole

[@jessepinkman3075]

I was just wondering about this the other day!

[@kalakritistudios]

Yeah, SCIENCE!

[@nope7924]

You wanna know how to solve a language or a code? Give it to reddit.

[@ornessarhithfaeron3576]

facts

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@ornessarhithfaeron3576 hM

[@deepstariaenigmatica2601]

more like pleddit.

[@Moodboard39]

😂😂😂 u kidding me

[@Moodboard39]

@@ornessarhithfaeron3576 bs

[@pragatitomar4313]

Don't know about others but I cried and jumped with excitement when for the first time.....the sanskrit language is featured in a Ted Ed video.....

[@kk_cats6072]

Me: I want to transcribe gem language Me after the video: Nevermind-

[@dailydoseofmedicinee]

Really educative.

[@mishtik06]

Why do all the great people die so young 😭 Edit: Wow! Never got so many likes

[@kalakritistudios]

I was thinking the same today.

[@PeridotFacet-FLCut-XG-og1xx]

You see, millions of unpopular people have died young and there are also many great people who died old.

[@thebluefriend]

They are mostly killed

[@otakuxgirl6]

Yeah so sad

[@rohanpandey2037]

rip juice wrld 1998-2019

[@David-tz1oi]

2:34 that was a nice transition

[@Namse21]

Nobody: Me at 2 am: *Watching how people decoded languages*

[@connorl7516]

Namit Sethi me rn

[@yongamer]

Perfect! I needed this to decode this ancient language I just found.

[@stellathefoxgirl3648]

Meanwhile the Voynich Manuscript remains unsolved, with its extremely strange language of which no one can figure out a word of

[@covenawhite4855]

It is about having a known reference language to translate the unknown language

[@Moodboard39]

@@covenawhite4855 hmm

[@covenawhite4855]

@@Moodboard39 🧐

[@andresmerino9461]

Well done Ted ! I didn't see come in...

[@DC-zh5qs]

"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[@thelearnersshowgv5064]

Very Informative !

[@miteshbothra5541]

Plot twist: It doesn't mean anything but is a curse of death for those who try to decipher it

[@Moodboard39]

Might release the mummy

[@pxrposewithnopurpose5801]

Ted-Ed and The infographic show is mah *Favourite*

[@VitalityFitnessScience]

Thanks for the video! Hopefully I can decode my girlfriends handwriting in a couple of years!

[@joaoboto6614]

I would just like to leave a comment. Althoug decifering an ancient language is important, it's also necessary to exist archaeological campaings to unveil other information connected to culture, economics and trade. :)

[@merrittanimation7721]

Linear A would be a lot easier to decipher is if we knew what languages it was related to.

[@tomraptile804]

You're right. So far it seems that Minoan and Greek aren't related languages and there is no living relative of Minoan

[@EspeonMistress00]

They deciphered some texts

[@Moodboard39]

@@EspeonMistress00 not all

[@Jobe-13]

Gotta love those Minoans. They left us with so many pretty-looking puzzle pieces.

[@qj181oqp]

Indus Valley language? Anyone? Okay I'm going...

[@anubhutisingh9187]

Me

[@shukrantpatil]

Sanskrit ??

[@PremVijayVelMani]

One of the hardest challenges. It is hypothesized as a mix of proto-Dravidian and Austroasiatic languages.

[@necromelodia2432]

@@shukrantpatil no one knows what sanskrit means?

[@ANTSEMUT1]

The trouble with the indus valley script is the artefacts we have of them aren't whole books worth but just clay tablets with 3-5 characters.

[@anthymidis]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 to 1450 BC to write the hypothesized Minoan language or languages. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization. It was succeeded by Linear B, which was used by the Mycenaeans to write an early form of Greek. It was discovered by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans. No texts in Linear A have yet been deciphered.

[@lq_12]

It would be really nice if next video on languages is about how Mayan language was decoded. Spoiler alert: A Soviet helped a lot

[@aditi_05]

Nice video! Very interesting subject presented well!

[@mochi6494]

I've never been this early

[@atreyibarmamajumder895]

I was gonna comment the same thing

[@andresv.8880]

First time?

[@mochi6494]

@@andresv.8880 yah

[@Iba_Jamal]

Me 2

[@kylelewis6097]

it gave me the notification 6 mins after the video was uplaoded

[@jacklaar9580]

Congratulations on 12M!

[@QuestionEverythingButWHY]

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." -Nelson Mandela

[@pratyush6487]

Think Different - Thought Provoking Ideas bot

[@udaykiranpanjala2710]

I think I know you

[@QuestionEverythingButWHY]

@@pratyush6487 lol thanks for letting me know about myself.

[@DanteKG.]

I remember learning of linear A and linear B in history class in middle school. I wondered how is it that one was deciphered and the other wasnt

[@iHerc]

Linear A was not used to write Greek, so, we might guess the sound of the symbols by comparing it to Linear B, the Cypriot Syllabary and a few others on those two islands, but we don't have any bilingual inscriptions to make sense of its language

[@Guy_East]

I love Micheal Ventris' features are so much like the Tintin Comics.

[@panosveto5729]

Search for Phaistos Disc. Its also in Crete a rare disc language puzzle.

[@sahilchouhan6459]

I need to show this to my teachers, they can’t read what I write 😭

[@reinq_5584]

Same lmao

[@garydunken7934]

2:33 that role change animation was cool! He had a killer instinct.

[@talimbeingaverythriftyghor5967]

plot twist : The tablets were written in that steange languages which it was been translated to "a list of debts"

[@mjstory1976]

Awesome and informative video

[@thedavyjones7177]

They’re actually just cheat codes and people are accidentally saying a respawn code when trying to pronounce characters

[@ethanweyn752]

List of undeciphered languages: Jiahu symbols, Vinca symbols, Dispilio tablet, Banpo symbols, Indus script, Proto-Elamite, Linear Elamite, Linear A Cretan hieroglyphs, Cypriot-Minoan syllabary, Phaistos Disc, Wadi el-Hol script, Byblos syllabary, Southwestern Paleohispanic script, Sitovo inscription, Olmec, Ismithian, Zapotec, Mixtec, Vikaramkhol inscription, Late Harappa script, Issyk inscription, Khoi script, Ba-Shu scripts, Para Lydian script, Khitan scripts...

[@Moodboard39]

Interesting

[@AliKhan-mg3mj]

patients trying to decipher the doctor's inscription: can I get more like then jus 31 :(

[@madlad255]

At least you can ask what they wrote, and if they're angry about it, I'd just tell them they would've started a new script that no one will ever decipher if I didn't ask!

[@AliKhan-mg3mj]

@@madlad255 I don't think I have ever actually read the inscription becoz I jus CANT but the pharmacy somehow have the superpower to understand squiggles in my opinion pharmacy people should do paper checking coz if a teacher does not understand a word she jus doesn't give marks for that like... ya

[@NoName-lc7tg]

The first movie that came to my mind after seeing the title is, Arrival, it shows how we can understand a foreign language but we may also misunderstand it