Why it is so hard do decipher the INDUS SCRIPT

In this videos, I will talk about the reasons why the Indus Script has not been deciphered yet.

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[pushkin]

Bro, Hands down simple, logical, scientific, realistic description of history, independent of any jingoistic biases or narrow Marxist flavour..please keep posting...and be indifferent to illiterate trolls...more power to you 👍👍

[NoName-pyyk]

I was watching this movie called arrival and started wondering about the un-deciphered indus script. Watched a couple of other videos on youtube including one by abhijeet chavda, but I found this the most informative. I then checked that you are just new to youtube, so, I decided to write this comment which I don't usually do.
I just want to let you know that this content is gold. A little touch up on editing and addition of more detailed or interesting pictures and articles will make your videos as professional as one can be. Just don't give up, keep going, I know you will blow up one day. All the best ❤️

[thenationalcentrist]

History tv 18 belike: it was the language of aliens😂😂😂

[Paintedfigs]

It took me two weeks of filtering through garbage like the Beer and Biceps channel, before i finally found this excellent channel. Thank you for putting out good content about our history!

[agnelomascarenhas]

Confusion about script and language abounds. Language is what we speak verbally. Script is how we encode or represent language with written symbols. This representation advanced with time. Pictographs are cartoon pictures like religious iconography. Ideographs represent abstract ideas. Logographs represent whole words or sentences.

Alphabets, alphasyllabaries represent sounds. The set of sounds is small. Alphabets range about 25. Alphasyllabaries 25x8 or so.

As you mentioned 400 signs, The question is what does the Indus script represent. You could rule out phonetic symbols. That gets it to logographs or ideographs. Each symbol represents a word/sentence or abstract idea. That's why it is so short.

Indus valley script dates to atleast 2500BC, far too early for phonetic symbols.

Evolution
Pictographs -> Ideographs -> logographs -> phonetic (Alphabets, alphasyllabaries)

[vimalkumarsingh]

Congratulations. Your video is becoming more and more interesting and informative. Keep it up.

[Keralaforum]

Good One. Unlike many videos on the net claiming a non-extistent Sanskrit connection with a hidden agenda. What we don't know, we don't know. Better to admit than claiming theoris connected to hidden agenda of some social political groups!

[AnandaVasishta]

As more settlements of this civilization are around Saraswati river, it should be renamed as Saraswati Civilization.

[wanderingnomad]

Just found your channel and subscribed right away. One of the few unbiased and fact based channels on Indian history.

[wilmabhardwaj]

I am a big fan of Podcasts that are meaningful clear and logical.
Enjoyed yours too. Keep up the good work..looking forward to listening more from your end

[anselmdanker]

Thank you for your explanation on the issues that face the process of translation.as the indus civilisation traded with mesopotamian civilisation, it seems that there have not been any, 'Rosseta stone ', discovered, which cities were the main trade partners of the indus civilisation?

[sunnyshine]

Great video! Informative, sticking to the facts and not getting bogged down by ideology. You just gained a subscriber!

[santoshkathira]

I'll stick my neck out here and say that there is a possibility that the language is likely an ancestor of Marwari, Sindhi and Gujarati. Only because of the trading community and it's continuous proliferation over millennia. We have evidence of trading in Middle East and Central Asia, then a settlement of Indian mercantile community in Armenia around 200 AD ish. We know marwaris were a prosperous trading community in the Gupta and post Gupta period. This continues till today. Trading has been a key constant trait in that region that has continued for thousands of years and proximity to the current prolific trading behaviour of the western Indian region makes me believe they might be from that region.

[tamizhtamizhan]

Hi Jay vardhan Singh you should watch the videos of Mr. Poornachandra in YouTube channel - ' Indus Valley Language' . He did nearly 40 years of research in Indus script and symbols and deciphered it. He wrote many articles too. I will share his YouTube link

[krishnamohan]

A very logical and simple explanation 👍

[elavarasans]

Bilingual inscription in Indus valley is discovered in 'Jaffna' in Srilanka.Many Indus scripts are discovered in many parts of Tamilnadu in Keezhadi, Porunthal, kinnimangalam, Adichanallur, Paiyyampalli archeological sites.

[bibhurout]

Harappa, Mahenjodaro and dholabira all are bussiness centers that's why no major imscriptions were found from those sites. But from Rig veda what we found that Sarasvati river basin was previously a cradle of civilization. Which lies in the Thar desert currently. My personal view is we should exavate this region to know more about indus valey civilization. But again it would be a very tough yask.

[KrisP]

please read the works of Steven Bonta and Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay, the Indus script can not encode normal human language, it is impossible with the script patterns. It is a script primarily related to trade and metrology.

[nullprophet]

Finally someone who doesn't show bias. I still can't comprehend the fact that historians, real professionals distorted facts just to push some agenda. Keep up the good work bro, try adding some background music

[indicaedits]

What are your views on SR Rao sir claim that he has deciphered Indus script and that it is a Indo-Aryan language. His decipherment results in an "Sanskritic" reading, including the numerals aeka, tra, chatus, panta, happta/sapta, dasa, dvadasa, sata (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 100).