Of all the mysterious remnants of our murky human past, one of the most intangible is the cycle of language. Like so many great people have declared, and so sadly few embraced; a man or a woman in this life is limited in reality by the very extent of their own language.  And we are the extent of what we take and learn and know; the words that we recollect are those same that define us.

Similarly, stacking words into phrases become scripts for our conversations, relationships, intuitions and beliefs.  And further our business, our way of means to the end result of procreation and progeny, is but an endless commencement of revolutions of words; either malignant or benign, each in its own right. 

However of the cycles, language is also one of the most difficult to study.  Because like the motions of distant stars, languages change course slowly, over vast expanses of time and space. And along this extended journey through the morphing of one language to another, there is the weaving of proximal languages and the commingling of dialect.  So much so that by the time one language has become extinct the means of deciphering it can be all but lost to time.

We have several examples troughout the world, of languages we know of  yet lack the means to decipher.  Sadly, this is most often do to the calamitous acts of organized spirituality (religion); which is another limb of this branch entirely.  Of the available some samples of such "lost" languages are:

• Khipu (South America)
• Linear A (Crete)
• Indus Script (Pakistan)
  
• Meroitic Heiroglyphs (Sudan)
• Rongo-Rongo (Easter Island)
  

Read more about ancient languages.

Eight Scripts that Still Can't be Read

Photo Essays of Undeciphered Scripts

And more information about all ancient scripts can be found here at ancientscripts.com.  (An awesome resource I will now be adding to the Anthropocosmos link area as well.)

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