Deciphering the Indus Script as a Cryptogram | Yajnadevam | #sangamtalks

Lets delve into the Indus script, its history & evolution alongwith different scripts. An approach will be built to solve it as a cryptogram & determine the language & its decipherment. Also, its abugida nature, base & composite signs, word boundaries, relationship with Brahmi script & evolution of 81 allophones & variants will be discussed. Then, the Indic/Vedic concepts inscribed on seals & correctness & falsifiability of approaches will be done. Speaker: Yajnadevam is a cryptographer & computer programmer interested in political theory, linguistics, ancient manuscripts & history. Combining his broad experience in languages & scripts together with programming & regular expressions, he will present his decipherment of the Indus script. For more of Yajnadevam's work, please visit: independent.academia.edu/yajnadevam Sub-Topics: 0:00 Introduction to the topic 0:41 The Indus Script - A Background 3:17 Indus Script Problem 4:38 Parpola's decipherment as Tamil 5:45 S.R. Rao's segmental as Sanskrit 6:18 Speaker's Decipherment Approach 7:14 Kinds of Scripts that exist 12:48 Indus Script : Segmental/Syllabic 14:23 Deciphering messages made of unknown symbols 15:35 Cryptograms 16:36 Using Regex to find words 18:33 Regular Expressions - Short words 20:14 Evolution of Signs and Sign classification 21:55 Sign variants 23:46 What if the sign identifications are wrong? 24:41 Language : Try them all...the right one will fit 25:28 The first 2 Signs of the Indus Script and its decipherment by the Speaker 26:39 Evolution of Science over 1500 years 27:59 Ordering by phoneme 29:12 Directional and word boundary marker 29:52 Brahmi script for decipherment 30:46 Some interesting inscriptions 31:49 The Dholavira signboard 32:15 The Magadha coin 32:33 Black buck inscription 32:58 Usha Tamra inscription 33:15 Chariot inscription 33:38 Wedding inscription 33:50 Vedic terms 34:06 Pashupati seal 34:26 Vedic altars 34:56 Deities in the inscriptions 35:28 Correctness of Speaker's decipherment of the Indus Script 38:04 Criticisms of Speaker's decipherment of the Indus Script 39:41 Falsifiability of Speaker's decipherment of the Indus Script 42:02 Implications of Speaker's decipherment of the Indus Script Q&A 43:55 Connections drawn between symbols and Brahmi would help bridge the Aryan-Dravidian divide problem? 48:34 Is it guesswork? What about numbers in the Indus script? 52:03 Is mainstream academia interested in Speaker's decipherment? How is the conclusion drawn by the Speaker that India is the homeland of early Indo-Europeans? 55:15 Are there more long descriptions available? In terms of language Brahmi was used as a base for many other languages apart from Sanskrit, so how can that be segmented? 57:42 Whether these symbols match with other contemporary civilizations of those times? 58:56 Why is it that we have different symbols representing the same syllable in the Speaker's decipherment? 1:00:47 Does the semitic family include the Aramaic and Finnisian as well which claims that the Brahmi script was modelled on it? Indus valley script and Harappan script are co-terminus? Join our newsletter for getting updates on upcoming lectures: www.sangamtalks.com/subscribe Join our YouTube video channel for learning about new video releases: Hindi : youtube.com/sangamhindi English : youtube.com/c/SangamTalks Tamil :    / @sangamtamizh   Punjabi :    / @sangampunjabi   Bhojpuri :    / @sangamtalksbhojpuri   Marathi :    / @sangammarathi   Malayalam :    / @sangammalayalam   Shorts :    / @sangamtalkstv   Bangla :    / @sangambangla   For updates you may follow us on: Facebook : www.facebook.com/sangamtalks Instagram : www.instagram.com/sangamtalks/ Telegram : t.me/sangamtalks Twitter : twitter.com/sangamtalks Koo : www.kooapp.com/profile/sangamtalks Website : www.sangamtalks.org/ Donate : www.sangamtalks.org/donate

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