Indo-Aryan
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Let's form a group and look into what we can get out of this exercise.
Harappan script 3500bce-1900bce
Brahmi script 500bce onwards
Khrosthi script (around the same time as Brahmi)
Nearly 1500 years without any script.
Although an Oral culture flourished during this period.
We need to first identity if the later scripts derive from Indus script. Kinda looks doubtful.
1500 years is too big a gap for Harappan descendants to carry any memory of Harappan script unless some kind of script did exist between that 1500 year period that links to Later scripts.
Worst case scenario Later scripts are entirely new systems of writing.
Then some words identified in Near East like words for Elephant and trade from Melhua.
Our work would be to find out Harappan specific items traded in Near East and their naming in those cultures.
Harappan script 3500bce-1900bce
Brahmi script 500bce onwards
Khrosthi script (around the same time as Brahmi)
Nearly 1500 years without any script.
Although an Oral culture flourished during this period.
We need to first identity if the later scripts derive from Indus script. Kinda looks doubtful.
1500 years is too big a gap for Harappan descendants to carry any memory of Harappan script unless some kind of script did exist between that 1500 year period that links to Later scripts.
Worst case scenario Later scripts are entirely new systems of writing.
Then some words identified in Near East like words for Elephant and trade from Melhua.
Our work would be to find out Harappan specific items traded in Near East and their naming in those cultures.