SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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The Harappan civilization had no writing system.
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Scholars have not yet learned to read it.
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The “Seals” only tell stories about animal legends.
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It disappeared with the Harappan civilization.
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Detailed explanation-1: -So far, the Indus writing system could not be translated because the texts are too short, we have no bilingual inscription and we do not which language or languages were transcribed. Moreover, it is possible that it worked differently from any other writing system of the same general period.
Detailed explanation-2: -Alongside building cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, this society also developed a written language of its own. Scholars today, however, have been unable to decipher the language.
Detailed explanation-3: -Non-linguistic signs The main ones are the extreme brevity of the inscriptions, the existence of too many rare signs (which increase over the 700-year period of the Mature Harappan civilisation), and the lack of the random-looking sign repetition that is typical of language.