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A script that is not read.
Also known as: Undeciphered Rongorongo, Easter Island script decipherment
The state of scholarship on Rongorongo, which remains undeciphered despite repeated claimed readings.
Remains undeciphered: no proposed reading is accepted by the field.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Only a small number of texts survive, most of them removed from the island in the nineteenth century, and the population that could read them was devastated before any record of the readings was made.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Confident decipherments are published regularly and none has been accepted; a reader meeting one should treat it as a proposal.
Claimed decipherments of Rongorongo are proposals, not accepted readings.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Rows of incised figures whose structure — line direction, glyph repetition, apparent groupings — can be described in outline while the values of the glyphs remain unknown.