Eli5 How are dead languages translated to something understandable when found out in the beggining
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Find something written in the dead language where you can guess what it says based on context – maybe because it’s also written in other languages, maybe because of where you found it, or where you find other copies of the same thing. The more you find, the more your confidence you can have. And if you can figure out even just a few words based on another find, you can use that to make better guesses about the rest of the words around it.
It’s a puzzle you put together piece by piece, getting slowly more confident in your solution.
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