Edit: I mean decipher. Sorry for any misunderstanding.
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Last time I checked, it is either much more comparison and based guess work. It’ll be a bad example, but take Old Latin for example. Spanish and Italian are both “new” forms of Old Latin. Linguists take these languages, compare them and try to essentially guess the meaning and translate the meaning of a Old Latin “document, because ES/IT words have a resemblence to Old Latin equivalent words.
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