Writing Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Indus Valley=== {{Main|Indus script}} Indus script refers to short strings of symbols associated with the [[Indus Valley Civilization]] (which spanned modern-day [[Pakistan]] and [[North India]]) used between 2600-1900 BC. Despite attempts at [[decipherment]]s and claims, it is as yet undeciphered. The term 'Indus script' is mainly applied to that used in the mature Harappan phase, which perhaps evolved from a few signs found in early [[Harappa]] after 3500 BC.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Whitehouse |first1=David |title='Earliest writing' found |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/334517.stm |work=BBC News |date=4 May 1999 }}</ref> The script is written from right to left,{{sfn|Mukhopadhyay|2019|page= 2}} and sometimes follows a [[boustrophedonic]] style. In 2015, the epigrapher Bryan Wells estimated there were around 694 distinct signs.{{sfn|Wells|2015|page=13}} This is above 400, so scholars accept the script to be logo-syllabic{{sfn|Stiebing|Helft|2018|page=104β105}} (typically syllabic scripts have about 50β100 signs whereas logographic scripts have a very large number of principal signs). Several scholars maintain that structural analysis indicates an [[agglutinative]] language underlies the script.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page