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Comparisons with Other similar Languages
by YheAbsuridy
Indus Script:

This ancient script has about 400 unique symbols. You find them on seals, pottery, and other stuff from the Indus Valley Civilization, which existed way back around 3300 to 1300 BCE.

People think these symbols were some kind of writing or proto-writing — kind of like early attempts to record language.

The symbols are mostly logographic, meaning each symbol might stand for a whole word or idea. Some might even represent sounds, but no one’s 100% sure. Some symbols might be numbers, animals, or abstract ideas.

Usually, they wrote from right to left, but there’s evidence that sometimes they went both ways.

The symbols often look like everyday things — cattle, fish, trees, people — but that doesn’t mean they literally stand for those things. They might be more symbolic or abstract.

Rongorongo (Easter Island script):

Rongorongo is made up of glyphs that look like humans, animals, or objects. It was used on Easter Island in the 1800s.

Unlike the Indus script, which was mostly for administrative stuff, Rongorongo was probably tied to religious or ritual use.

It’s also thought to be logographic, maybe with some syllabic elements, and has about 120–150 symbols, many of which look pretty similar.

The writing usually goes from bottom to top or right to left, and the direction often flips back and forth, creating a zigzag pattern.

Like the Indus script, it features animals (birds, fish), humans, and abstract shapes that might represent gods, spirits, or cultural ideas.



Animals and People: Both scripts include symbols that look like animals and humans — maybe representing real creatures, gods, or cultural values.

Abstract Shapes: Circles, triangles, squares — both use these shapes, maybe as concepts or part of a sound system.

Symbol Variations: Symbols sometimes have different forms depending on context or time, showing the writing evolved.

Logographic: Both might mainly represent whole words or ideas instead of individual sounds.

Ritual Use: Both seem connected to religious or ceremonial life — the Indus on seals with religious objects, Rongorongo probably in rituals.



Culture: Indus script comes from a big urban civilization, Rongorongo from a small, isolated island society.

Time: Indus is super old (3300–1300 BCE), Rongorongo is more recent (pre european contact ).

Purpose: Indus was mostly administrative/economic; Rongorongo likely ritualistic.

Decipherment: Neither is fully cracked yet, but the Indus script remains especially mysterious due to no bilingual texts, while Rongorongo has been studied more since it’s comparatively recent.

Chinese Oracle Bone Script Rongorongo

Oracle Bone Script is China’s oldest writing (from around 1200 BCE), mainly carved on bones and turtle shells for divinat

ion.

Rongorongo is a mysterious glyph system from Easter Island, probably from the 18th or 19th century, undeciphered and maybe a mnemonic or proto-writing system.


Both use pictographic or ideographic symbols — simple pictures for people, animals, objects.

Both show human figures, sometimes stick-like, sometimes more detailed.

Both include natural elements like the sun or moon, often abstracted.

Oracle bones are more linear and angular; Rongorongo glyphs are rounded and flowy.

Oracle bones are carved vertically (top to bottom), while Rongorongo is written in alternating directions (boustrophedon) on wood.

Oracle bones were for divination and records; Rongorongo’s exact purpose is unknown but might be mythological or genealogical.

Some Example Comparisons:
SymbolOracle Bone ScriptRongorongoNotes
HumanSimple person figure 𠂇Human-like glyph with limbsBoth show stylized humans
SunCircle with a line or dot 日Circle with dot or raysBoth use round shapes
BirdSimplified bird with beakBird glyph with stylized wingsBoth represent birds

Other Similar Languages
Polynesian Petroglyphs & Rock Art

Symbols carved or painted on rocks across Polynesia share visual motifs like human figures, animals, boats, and geometric patterns similar to Rongorongo glyphs. These aren’t formal writing systems but symbolic art with some shared iconography.

Mesoamerican Scripts (Maya Hieroglyphs)

Both use complex pictorial glyphs depicting animals, humans, and objects. Use of detailed stylized imagery and sometimes hatching patterns.

Indus Valley Script (Harappan Script)

Undeciphered pictographic script with abstract and animal motifs. Though from a very different region and era, the use of compact, iconic symbols shows some visual resemblance.

Southeast Asian Ancient Scripts (e.g., Brahmi, Tamil-Brahmi)

Some geometric and symbolic shapes can be visually comparable to simpler Rongorongo glyphs, especially in early Brahmi inscriptions.

Similarities

Ancient scripts start with pictographs—simple pictures representing objects or ideas. Because natural forms (birds, fish, humans) are common, similar shapes emerge independently.

Rongorongo, like these others, uses stylized images of living beings and objects.

Summary

Writing SystemVisual Similarity to RongorongoNotes
Polynesian PetroglyphsHigh (iconic animals, humans)Symbolic rock art, no full script
Maya HieroglyphsModerate (complex pictograms)Logosyllabic, deciphered
Indus ScriptModerate (abstract, animal symbols)Undeciphered, from South Asia
Oracle Bone ScriptModerate (early pictographs)Ancestor of Chinese writing
Brahmi & DerivativesLow to moderate (geometric forms)Alphabetic origin, stylized glyphs


Humanized Interpretation of the Glyphs

When we look at these symbols, they don’t feel like letters of an alphabet, but more like pieces of a story — reminders of ancestors, nature, and the cycles of life.

Human-like figures (200, 240, 280, 400, 660, 720)
These are the ancestors, priests, warriors, and spirits. They stand in the middle of the story as guides, protectors, and storytellers.

The fish symbol (700)
The fish is life. It brings food, prosperity, and abundance. Just as in the Indus tradition it may have symbolized stars or fertility, on this island it speaks of survival, nourishment, and sacred gifts from the sea.

The crescent forms (41, 44)
These are the moon’s faces — symbols of time, night, and cycles of renewal. They remind people of the rhythms of the sky that govern ritual, planting, and the tides.

The circles and ovals (22, 25, 27a, 28)
These enclosures echo seeds, eggs, wombs — the mysteries of creation and rebirth. They mark beginnings, protection, and the eternal return of life.

The branching shapes (03, 06, 50, 52, 53, 63, 69)
These resemble trees or streams. They likely stand for genealogy, the branching of families and lineages, or the spreading of fertility and life.

Geometric marks (15, 16, 67, 95, 99)
These plain shapes — rectangles, lines, dots — might be counting tools, markers of ritual, or signs that structure the story like pauses and rhythm.

Examples of Meaningful Sequences

Glyph 200 (human) + 700 (fish) + 41 (crescent moon)
“The ancestor calls abundance beneath the light of the moon.”
This could be a prayer for fertility, linking ancestral power with nature’s cycles.

Glyph 400 (human with raised arms) + 22 (circle/egg) + 530 (tree-like figure)
“The priest within the sacred womb calls upon the tree of life.”
Perhaps a ritual invoking rebirth, lineage, or divine connection.

Glyph 720 (bird-headed human) + 901 (hook-like curve)
“The spirit-bird carries the soul on its journey beyond.”
A vision of death and passage to the other world.

What It All Suggests

Rather than being “words” in the modern sense, these glyphs seem like a memory system: compact pictures holding whole layers of meaning. They carry:

Family and ancestors — who you come from and who protects you.

Ritual and myth — prayers to the moon, sun, fish, and birds.

Cosmology — the cycles of fertility, time, and the order of the universe.