Publication Date:
2009-04-25
Description:
The script of the ancient Indus civilization remains undeciphered. The hypothesis that the script encodes language has recently been questioned. Here, we present evidence for the linguistic hypothesis by showing that the script's conditional entropy is closer to those of natural languages than various types of nonlinguistic systems.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rao, Rajesh P N -- Yadav, Nisha -- Vahia, Mayank N -- Joglekar, Hrishikesh -- Adhikari, R -- Mahadevan, Iravatham -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 May 29;324(5931):1165. doi: 10.1126/science.1170391. Epub 2009 Apr 23.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. rao@cs.washington.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19389998" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Base Sequence
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2/genetics
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Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry
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History, Ancient
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Humans
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India
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Language
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Linguistics/*history
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Pakistan
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Programming Languages
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Writing/*history
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
