Undeciphered Writing Systems - Medieval and Later Scripts

Medieval and Later Scripts

  • Issyk writing (ancient Turkestan and Afghanistan)
  • Khitan scripts — Khitan, 10th century, not fully deciphered.
  • Tujia script
  • Singapore Stone, a fragment of a sandstone slab inscribed with an ancient Southeast Asian script, perhaps Old Javanese or Sanskrit. At least 13th century, and possibly as early as 10th to 11th century.
  • Rongorongo — Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island), before 1860.

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