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    to decipher the rongorongo script of Easter Island since its discovery in the late nineteenth century. As with most undeciphered scripts, many of the...
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    Rongorongo (/ˈrɒŋɡoʊˈrɒŋɡoʊ/ or /ˈrɒŋoʊˈrɒŋoʊ/; Rapa Nui: roŋoroŋo [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island...
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  • and linguistics, decipherment is the discovery of the meaning of the symbols found in extinct languages and/or alphabets. Decipherment is possible with...
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    system of glyphs discovered in the 1800s, is believed to represent an older version of the Rapa Nui language. However, the decipherment of rongorongo is an...
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    Rongorongo (/ˈrɒŋɡoʊˈrɒŋɡoʊ/; Rapa Nui: [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing...
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    Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter. FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script:...
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  • Nui calendar. It is the only example of the Rongorongo script agreed to have been at least partially deciphered with regards to its meaning, while the...
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  • The Raŋitoki fragment (Ragitoki, Rangitoki) is a possible rongorongo text, though its authenticity has been called into question. This fragment is kept...
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    Boris Kudryavtsev (category Rongorongo)
    employee of the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, who made a significant contribution to the decipherment of Rongorongo. Boris Kudryavtsev...
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  • Text Z of the rongorongo corpus, also known as Poike, is a palimpsest inscription that may be one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. The authenticity...
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  • Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter. FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script:...
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    Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter. FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script:...
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  • Yuri Knorozov (category Rongorongo)
    for the key role he played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system of the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Knorozov...
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    Irina Feodorova (category Rongorongo)
    Mamari calendar, the single rongorongo text that can be read, contains no calendrical information in Feodorova's decipherment, but reads instead like the...
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  • Text U of the rongorongo corpus, carved on a beam, also known as Honolulu tablet 2 or Honolulu 3628, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. U...
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    of Annexation or through knowledge of European writing acquired elsewhere. They cite various reasons, including the lack of attestation of rongorongo...
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  • Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter. FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script:...
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    Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter. FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script:...
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  • Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter. FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script:...
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    Rongorongo is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing. Text B of the rongorongo...
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    Rongorongo (/ˈrɒŋɡoʊˈrɒŋɡoʊ/; Rapa Nui: [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing...
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  • Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter. FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script:...
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    Text Y of the rongorongo corpus, known as the Paris Snuff Box, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. Y is the standard designation, continuing...
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  • Text O of the rongorongo corpus, the Berlin tablet, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. O is the standard designation, from Barthel (1958)...
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    script Kōhau Rongorongo – Rapa Nui. After 1200, before 1860. Probably logosyllabic. Kōhau Rongorongo One very similar concept is that of false writing...
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    Rosenmann-Taub Dawson Island Day of the Youth Combatant De la Laguna River Deal or No Deal (Chile) Decipherment of rongorongo Degu Del Toro Lake Delfina Guzmán...
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    Glyph-breaker: A Decipherer's Story. New York: Copernicus/Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-1-4612-2298-9. Fischer, Steven Roger (1997). RongoRongo, the Easter Island...
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    Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter. FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script:...
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  • of the rongorongo corpus, also known as the (Small) London tablet, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. It nearly duplicates the recto of tablet...
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    Text X of the rongorongo corpus, known as the (New York) Birdman, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. X is the standard designation, from...
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