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Munda / Para-Munda / Austroasiatic-related

The idea that an Austroasiatic-related language, sometimes called Para-Munda, underlies at least some inscriptions.

Research compilation

Research compilation from a published ICIT-style digitization — not a complete or licensed photographic corpus

Fit on current defined metric: inconclusive.

Minority model; not discarded a priori, not supported as a decipherment.

Assumptions

  • Austroasiatic presence in the greater Indus world
  • Selected signs map to Munda roots

Strengths

  • Austroasiatic substrates have been argued for later South Asian languages

Limitations

  • Thin direct inscriptional tests
  • Easy to overfit sparse texts