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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Computer program translates ancient language

Computer program translates ancient language | Mail Online

What translaters have found in the past is that most of the documents translated tend to be some sort of bureaucratic records or booking.
Some things never change! [Mooserider]

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told the program that the language was related to another known language, in this case Hebrew.

The system is then able to make assumptions about the way different words are formed and whether they consist of a prefix and a suffix, for example.

FIVE OF THE WORLD'S UNDECIPHERED SCRIPTS

  • Etruscan - Repeated attempts to decipher this language have led little further than the numbers one to six.
  • The Rohonc Codex - Discovered in Hungary, it contains 10 times more symbols than any other known alphabet
  • Rongorongo - Discovered on Easter Island, scientists are not even sure if it is language
  • Linear A - An ancient Minoan script from Crete from around 1900-1800 BC
  • Vinca symbols - Believed to be the earliest 'proto-language' known to man, these symbols were found in Hungary in 1875. They date from around 4000 BC

Through repeated analysis, the program linked letters and words to map nearly all Ugaritic symbols to their Hebrew equivalents in a matter of hours.

The system looks for commonly used symbols in the two languages and gradually refines its mapping of the alphabet until it can go no further.

The Ugaritic alphabet has 30 letters, and the system correctly mapped 29 of them to their Hebrew counterparts.

Of the words that the two languages shared the program was able to correctly identify 60 per cent of them.



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