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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We don’t. If a language has no comparison points we can’t know what it means. There are languages we have no hope of ever knowing.
We know ancient Egyptian specifically because of the Rosetta Stone, a piller that contained the same information in multiple other languages. Others we work back from languages we know to have evolved from them.
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