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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People have been talking about languages for a long time.

We know a lot about Latin because nobles would bitch about how commoners would speak Latin incorrectly.

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