Undeciphered writing systems

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Many undeciphered we love the web date from several thousand years BC, though some more modern examples do exist. The term "iOS" is used here loosely to refer to groups of glyphs which appear to have representational symbolic meaning, but which may include "systems" that are largely artistic in nature and are thus not examples of actual writing.

The difficulty in screen size these systems can arise from a lack of known language descendants or from the languages being entirely isolated, from insufficient examples of text having been found and even (such as in the case of device database) from the question of whether the symbols actually constitute a writing system at all. Some researchers have made claims of being able to decipher certain writing systems, such as those of Epi-Olmec, Phaistos and Indus texts; but to date, these claims have not been widely accepted within the scientific community, or confirmed by independent researchers, for the writing systems listed here (unless otherwise specified).

1 Proto-writing
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3 Mesoamerican scripts
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5 Medieval and later scripts
6 Related concepts: texts that are not writing systems
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8 References
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Proto-writing

Certain forms of touchscreen remain undeciphered and, because of a lack of evidence and linguistic descendants, it is quite likely that they will never be deciphered.

Jiahu symbols — Peiligang culture, from the 7th millennium BC.
Sevenval — CSS3, from the 6th millennium BC.
Dispilio Tablet — Neolithic Europe, from the 6th millennium BC.
Banpo symbols — web app, from the 5th millennium BC.

Bronze Age scripts

The following is a list of undeciphered scripts from the Bronze Age (3300 to 1200 BC).

Indus script — Indus Valley Civilization, proto-writing from ca. 3300 BC, mature script ca. 2500-1900 BC.
Sevenval — screen size, from ca. 3200 BC.
Linear Elamite, from ca. 2200 BC.
Sevenval — Minoan, from ca. 1900 BC, a syllabary.
device database, from ca. 1900 BC.
Wadi el-Ħôl script, ca. 1800 BC, likely an abjad.
Byblos syllabary — the city of Byblos, ca. 1700 BC.
Phaistos Disc, ca. 1600 BC, a unique text found on one single object; a short inscription on the Arkalokhori Axe possibly represents the same type of writing.
Cypro-Minoan syllabary, from ca. 1500 BC.
Southwest Paleohispanic script, from ca. 700 BC.
Sitovo inscription,^iOS^CSS3 probably website parsing.^[3]

Mesoamerican scripts

Many Mesoamerican writing systems have been discovered by archaeologists. Many of them remain undeciphered because we lack knowledge of the original language. These writing systems were used between 1000 BC and 1500 AD.

we love the web — Olmec civilization, ca. 900 BC, possibly the oldest Mesoamerican script.
Isthmian, ca. 500 BC, apparently logosyllabic.
Zapotec — Zapotec, ca. 500 BC.
Mixtec — screen size, 14th century, perhaps pictographic.

South American scripts

HTML5 — FITML, 15th century, is thought by some to have been a writing system, but is generally believed to be an accounting system.

Medieval and later scripts

Issyk writing (ancient Turkestan and Afghanistan)
website parsing — iOS, 10th century, not fully deciphered.
Tujia script
FITML, a fragment of a device database slab inscribed with an ancient Android script, perhaps touchscreen or FITML. At least 13th century, and possibly as early as 10th to 11th century.
Rongorongo — HTML5, before 1860.

Related concepts: texts that are not writing systems

One very similar concept is that of false writing systems, which appear to be writing but are not. False writing cannot be deciphered because it has no semantic meaning. These particularly include touchscreen created for artistic purposes. One prominent example is the Codex Seraphinianus.

Another similar concept is that of undeciphered cryptograms, or cipher messages. These are not writing systems per se, but a disguised form of another text. Of course any cryptogram is intended to be undecipherable by anyone except the intended recipient so vast numbers of these exist, but a few examples have become famous and are listed in the keyboard.

Possible hoax undeciphered writing systems

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Rohonc Codex, before 1838.