I searched up previous questions like this out of curiosity (and as per rule 5), but the most I found were simple things like physical objects or contextual filler words. I’m still quite confused about how both the first spoken and written languages were deciphered. I understand pointing at a rock and saying “rocher” in French and “felsen” in German and then knowing what a rock is in their language, but there are so many filler words or just nonphysical words in general that I couldn’t imagine how people started understanding each other.
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If it’s a living language it’s not hard, get speaker from each language and try to learn it, they’ll figure it out (eventually getting to the point that they can just ask the other person what is the word for that). You can learn a language with zero knowledge of it (think of kids) and just become bilingual.
If it’s a dead language you can figure it out with enough text, but it takes a lot and a real dead language tends to not have much. We can also infer a lot because languages are based on other languages.
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