{"id":2444,"date":"2026-08-03T03:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:27:22","slug":"what-happens-when-you-put-ai-to-work-deciphering-lost-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2444","title":{"rendered":"What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that\u2019s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A, the writing system of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization on the Greek island of Crete, has neither.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldhistory.org\/Linear_A_Script\/\">Linear A<\/a> is described as a \u201clanguage isolate\u201d because it has no confirmed link to any known language, living or dead. As such, it has posed a significant challenge for <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/topics\/linguistics-1841\">linguists<\/a> over the past century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Etruscan-language\">Etruscan<\/a>, a language of Italy that was used before the rise of the Roman Empire, has fared only slightly better. A partial vocabulary has been collected from short funerary inscriptions, but its grammar and deeper meaning still elude linguists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/07\/what-happens-when-you-put-ai-to-work-deciphering-lost-languages\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/07\/what-happens-when-you-put-ai-to-work-deciphering-lost-languages\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/07\/what-happens-when-you-put-ai-to-work-deciphering-lost-languages\/' target='_blank'>Read the original article on arstechnica.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that\u2019s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A, the writing system of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization on the Greek island of Crete, has neither. Linear A is described as a \u201clanguage isolate\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}