how did we get to understand any extinct languages?

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For instance hieroglyphs or other symbol based languages. How did we find out what those symbols mean, when we’ve got nothing to compare them to?

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School assignments. Have an ancient language, find a child’s tablet inscription, see what’s wrong or corrected. You know it’s wrong because everyone else writes it a different way. And if someone else rights it a different way, you know that it could be a typo because they sound the same.

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