Indian Palaeography c9.s2.6

c9.s2.6

The decipherment of an unknown language in a known script, such as the cuneiform Hittite, Etruscan, or Urartean; or of a known language in an unknown script, such as the Greek in the Cyprian syllabic script, is much more hopeful than that of an unknown script and unknown language, as the case is with the hieroglyphic Hittite or Cretan languages. For such works certain points of contact are necessary. Nothing can be made out of nothing.