The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c9.13

c9.13

This is less than might have been anticipated as the result of mere coincidence, and infinitely less than we should have expected had there been any causal connection between the scripts. Indeed the evidence is in the opposite direction, for there are sequences containing signs that are common to both scripts, which, found frequently in Proto-Elamite, are absent from Proto-Indian, and vice versa, e.g. 𐀆 𐀇 𐀈 𐀉 𐀊 in Proto-Elamite; 𐀋 𐀌 , 𐀍 𐀎 , 𐀏 ♾ , in Proto-Indian. It is then fairly certain that while the scripts are allied the languages are quite distinct since they have not a proper name, and scarcely the element of a proper name, in common.