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Middle Iranian Languages
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Middle Persian (Pahlavi)
Middle Persian, centered in Fars, became the prestige language of the Sasanian Empire. Its script, Pahlavi script, is famous for its logograms (heterograms), where common words were written using Aramaic characters representing the sound of the word in Aramaic, but read aloud as the corresponding Middle Persian term. This system, intended to obscure finan… -
Semitic Languages
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Cuneiform
Derived ultimately from Sumerian, cuneiform was adopted by the East Semitic speakers (Akkadians) around the 3rd millennium BCE. Cuneiform is a mixed system, primarily syllabic but also featuring logograms.
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Thera
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Linguistic Artifacts
Inscriptions found at Akrotiri, written in an unclassified syllabic script, present unique orthographic challenges. While related geographically to Linear A, the script utilizes an unusual density of diacritics. The most consistently observed linguistic phenomenon is the frequent use of a specific ligature$\ (\pitchfork)$, which does not appear to function as a phoneme or logogram b… -
Thomas Young
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Despite his intense focus on physical sciences, Young made equally significant strides in philology, notably his early work on Egyptian hieroglyphs. While Jean-François Champollion is usually credited with the full decipherment, Young's preliminary work was crucial.
Young correctly identified that some hieroglyphs represented phonetic sounds rather than purely ideographic concepts. His breakthrough came from analyzing the [cartouches](/entries…