How do people decipher fictional languages with seemingly random and unfamiliar symbols?
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If it’s an actual language then the symbols aren’t random. Most commonly, it will be based off of, or be very similar to an existing , real language. Once the association is made, you can use the known patterns of the real language to work on deciphering the fake one.
If it is completely novel, or its connections to real languages are unknown, it will still have patterns that can be analyzed. Deciphering it would use the same tools and methods people use to decipher real languages that are currently unknown. It’s mainly based on analyzing patterns and comparing them to things we know.
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