Were the people of Harappa literate? If Yes / No, give reasons.
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"Yes, the people of Harappa were most likely to be literate.
This is because apart from their great knowledge of town-planning which proved their literacy, they were supposed to use some scripts which resembled the modern day languages like Tamil, Sanskrit and English.
After comparing those scripts with various linguistic and non-linguistic systems, scientists have come to the conclusion that the inscriptions matched with that of many of our spoken languages which proved that the people of the Harappan era were literate.
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Yes, the people of Harappa were most likely to be literate
The Harappans were literate people. Harappan seals, are engraved with various signs
or characters. Recent studies suggest that the Harappan script consists of about 400
signs and that it was written from right to left. However, the script has not been
deciphered as yet. It is believed that they used ideograms i.e., a graphic symbol or
character to convey the idea directly. We do not know the language they spoke,
though scholars believe that they spoke “Brahui”, a dialect used by Baluchi people in
Pakistan today. However further research alone can unveil the mystery and enable
us to know more about the Harappan script.
3.10 DECLINE OF THE HARAPPAN CIVIL