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Seals showing Indus script, an ancient undeciphered writing system Page 32 of the Voynich manuscript, a medieval manuscript written with an undeciphered writing system. Many undeciphered writing systems exist today; most date back several thousand years, although some more modern examples do exist.
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Year of origin Ciphertext Decipherment status 179-180 Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 90: Unsolved 1400s (15th century) Voynich Manuscript: Unsolved 1500s (16th century) (?)
In philology and linguistics, decipherment is the discovery of the meaning of the symbols found in extinct languages and/or alphabets. [1] Decipherment is possible with respect to languages and scripts.
Edward Larsson's rune cipher resembling that found on the Kensington Runestone.Also includes runically unrelated blackletter writing style and pigpen cipher.. In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption—a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure.
Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French, the Dutch) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify). Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name.
Besides the tilde and macron marks above and below letters, modifying cross-bars and extended strokes were employed as scribal abbreviation marks, mostly for prefixes and verb, noun and adjective suffixes.
English adjectives form a large open category of words in English which, semantically, tend to denote properties such as size, colour, mood, quality, age, ...