Indus script

English right|thumb|A seal, showing several symbols of Indus script Etymology From en Indus + en script. Proper noun An as yet undeciphered corpus of symbols found on some artefacts from the Indus Valley Civilization, possibly representing a script of a language. en 2004 Shane Mountjoy The Indus River 22 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pyMtW05C0h8C&pg=PA22&dq=%22Indus+script%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pABqU_ybKsGQkwX6xYCYDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Indus%20script%22&f=false 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. en 2007 Michael Korvink The Indus Script: A Positional-Statistical Approach http://books.google.com.au/books?id=35jHAHCAWlUC&pg=PA10&dq=%22Indus+script%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pABqU_ybKsGQkwX6xYCYDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Indus%20script%22&f=false 10 It has been suggested, based solely on the number of signs, that the Indus script is logo-syllabic. en 2008 Jane McIntosh The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives 72 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1AJO2A-CbccC&pg=PA72&dq=%22Indus+script%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pABqU_ybKsGQkwX6xYCYDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Indus%20script%22&f=false While most of the marks are simple and of a universal nature, a few were later used as signs in the Indus script. Synonyms corpus of symbols from the Indus Valley Civilization en Harappan script