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A read script in an unread language.
Also known as: Kushite script, Meroitic alphabet
The script of the Kingdom of Kush, whose sounds are known and whose language is not understood.
Writes the Meroitic language of the Kingdom of Kush in hieroglyphic and cursive forms.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Its sound values were established over a century ago, so the texts can be pronounced; the language they record has no known relatives and remains largely untranslated.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
The mirror image of the Indus problem: there the signs are unread, here they are read and the language is not understood.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Around twenty-three signs in a monumental hieroglyphic figure and a cursive outline, with two or three dots dividing the words.
Both are scripts that can be pronounced without being understood, a state distinct from being undeciphered.