Edit: I mean decipher. Sorry for any misunderstanding.
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Either A: wild guess/make it up.
Or B: compare to languages we know. Hopefully there are records from a time people spoke both languages which detail pronunciation and such, but that’s not always available.
By looking at things like loaned words, spelling changes, music and poetry, or comments from other people we can reconstruct what a language sounded like.
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