The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c6.56

c6.56

Language. If as I think Professor Langdon is right in deriving the Brahmi² script from that of Harappa and Mohenjodaro,³ it follows that some of the latter's signs had acquired phonetic values by the time they were borrowed by the Hindus or - that which is equally possible - by an earlier race who passed them on to the Hindus. But little else follows. It certainly does not follow that the 'Indians' of Harappa and Mohenjodaro spoke Sanskrit - as Colonel Waddell appears to have thought - any more than that the Phoenicians spoke Greek! The possibility that the people of Mohenjodaro were the ancestors of the Brahui has already been suggested.