Undeciphered writing systems
Writing and symbol systems without accepted decipherments
Undeciphered writing systems
Undeciphered writing systems are any written or inscribed symbols for which no decipherment has achieved broad acceptance in the specialist literature. While most examples are ancient, a small number are medieval or modern. In some cases the evidence is too limited to determine whether the marks represent a true writing system, a form of proto-writing, or a set of non-linguistic symbols; modern artistic traditions such as asemic writing likewise imitate the appearance of writing while intentionally withholding stable linguistic meaning. It is not clear all these cases were intended as writing systems with linguistic function or representation, and some inscribed symbols or characters may have other explanations such as being artwork. Difficulties in decipherment commonly arise from one or more of the following: the absence of bilingual texts or other external "anchors" (such as securely identifiable names or dates); uncertain or unknown underlying languages (including possible language...
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