P. E. Cleator (1908–1994)

Published in 1959, the "Introduction" holds well. Speaking as a mere reader of an Egyptologistʻs long studied love, I found Lost Languages fascinating. The only portion that I know has changed concerns the Maya glyphs, deciphered by Emory and Vanderbilt University linguistic archaeology teams sometime in the 1980ʻs perhaps. Other readers, reviewers (I am not among them: I write responses, not reviews), have good news: the account holds for the most part. Considering that it involves Ugaritic, Hittite, etc., that is good. Now I am curious about other languages, once unknown and in that sense "unknownʻ in certain aspects --like W.T. Jones on Sanskrit, as connected to Persian, hence Indo-European in classification (now well known). . .over and against, .e.g. what the languages of the Indus Valley, of Mohenjo Daro, e.g., was or was like. Just curious and writing-out-quietly.… (meer)