WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indus Script combined both word signs and symbols with phonetic value. This type of writing system is known as “logo-syllabic", where some symbols express ideas or words while others represent sounds.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Indus (or Harappan) people used a pictographic script. Some 3500 specimens of this script survive in stamp seals carved in stone, in moulded terracotta and faience amulets, in fragments of pottery, and in a few other categories of inscribed objects.

Detailed explanation-3: -He showed that Indus writing has about 417 distinct signs in specific patterns. The average size of writing is five signs and the largest text in a single line is 14 signs. He also established the direction of writing as right to left.

Detailed explanation-4: -Majority of the Indus Valley inscriptions were written logographically (by using word signs) and not by using phonograms (speech sounds units). The inscriptions can be compared to structured messages found on stamps, coupons, tokens and currency coins of modern times. It classifies signs into nine functional classes.