How archaeologists decipher languages that don’t exist anymore?
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this is something they are doing today actively with the Burma language Pyu
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyu_language_(Sino-Tibetan)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyu_language_(Sino-Tibetan))
(i know one of the researchers doing the work)
it is beyond esoteric stuff and i am in awe of what these people can figure out
[https://www.persee.fr/doc/befeo_0336-1519_2017_num_103_1_6247](https://www.persee.fr/doc/befeo_0336-1519_2017_num_103_1_6247)
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