According to the National Geographic, a team at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology has developed new software capable of not only translating but also deciphering and decoding unknown languages.
The program was tested on the lost language of Ugaritic, a language estimated to last been used around 1200 B.C. in western Syria. It compared symbols and patterns to Hebrew, a closely related language and translated the Ugaritic script into Hebrew in a matter of hours. By comparison it took multiple years for language experts to decode the scripts when they were originally found in the late 1920s.
It is yet to be seen how the program will do when decoding texts that have no known linguistic relative. The MIT team thinks the program has promise with these puzzling languages and believes that the software could discover links in languages that were previously unknown.
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