indus script
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An as yet undeciphered corpus of symbols found on some artefacts from the Indus Valley Civilization, possibly representing a script of a language.
Example Sentences
- "Although scholars have had these seals, the so-called Indus script, since the early twentieth century, little progress has been made in decoding their meaning, largely because of the nature of the seals themselves and the problem of language."
- "It has been suggested, based solely on the number of signs, that the Indus script is logo-syllabic."
- "While most of the marks are simple and of a universal nature, a few were later used as signs in the Indus script."
Etymology
Synonyms
Harappan script