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  2. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

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    The Précis identified hundreds of hieroglyphic words, described differences between hieroglyphs and other scripts, analysed proper names and the uses of cartouches and described some of the language's grammar. Champollion was moving from deciphering a script to translating the underlying language.

  3. Undeciphered writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Linear A and Cretan hieroglyphs are scripts from an unknown language, one possibility being a yet to be deciphered Minoan language. [1] Several words have been decoded from the scripts, but no definite conclusions on the meanings of the words have been made. Phaistos Disc, c. 2000 BC. Linear A, c. 1800 BC – 1450 BC, partially deciphered ...

  4. Decipherment - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the last line of a text has a small number, it can be reasonably guessed to be referring to the date, where one of the words means "year" and, sometimes, a royal name also appears. Another case is when the text contains many small numbers, followed by a word, followed by a larger number; here, the word likely means "total" or "sum".

  5. List decoding - Wikipedia

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    In fact, the term "list-decoding capacity" should actually be read as the capacity of an adversarial channel under list decoding. Also, the proof for list-decoding capacity is an important result that pin points the optimal trade-off between rate of a code and the fraction of errors that can be corrected under list decoding.

  6. Decipherment of cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    He was the first to discover the sign for a word division in one of the scriptures. Oluf Gerhard Tychsen was the first to list 24 phonetic or alphabetic values for the characters in 1798. Actual decipherment did not take place until the beginning of the 19th century, initiated by Georg Friedrich Grotefend in his study of Old Persian cuneiform.

  7. Grille (cryptography) - Wikipedia

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    The Cardan grille was invented as a method of secret writing. The word cryptography became the more familiar term for secret communications from the middle of the 17th century. Earlier, the word steganography was common. [citation needed] The other general term for secret writing was cypher - also spelt cipher. There is a modern distinction ...

  8. Simple view of reading - Wikipedia

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    (D) Decoding: Converting written words into spoken language [3] (LC) Language (listening) comprehension: understanding the meaning of the words in context (as if they had been spoken out loud). (RC) Reading comprehension: understanding the meaning of the written words in context. To be clear, all of this can be done while doing silent reading.

  9. Pseudoword - Wikipedia

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    A pseudoword is a unit of speech or text that appears to be an actual word in a certain language, while in fact it has no meaning.It is a specific type of nonce word, or even more narrowly a nonsense word, composed of a combination of phonemes which nevertheless conform to the language's phonotactic rules. [1]