Konstantin Pozdniakov, INALCO, IUF, LLACAN Looking for proper names in the Rapanui script

2. Konstantin Pozdniakov,INALCO, IUF, LLACANLooking for proper names in the Rapanui script

4. Peter the Great Museum (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg

5. Boris Kudriavtsev: a discovery of parallel texts

6. Dmitrij Olderogge

7. Yuri Knorozov

8. Irina Fedorova

9. Hunting for personal names

10. « Genealogy » by KnorozovGv6 In the history of the Rongorongo studies, the most known attempt to find proper names was that by Yurij Knorozov and Nicolai Butinov, who suggested that a short fragment of the text Gv is a genealogy. This fragment has a very unusual structure: it consists of short groups where the second sign of every group is repeated as the first sign of the next group: AB – BC – CD – DE – EF.

11. « Genealogy » by Knorozov

12. When he successfully deciphered the Rongorongo script of Easter Island Steven Roger Fischer gained a unique place in the pantheon of glyphbreakers. He is the only person who has ever deciphered not one but two ancient scripts. Fischer's previous decipherment, of a Cretan artifact called the Phaistos Disk, provided the key to the ancient Minoan language and showed it to be closely related to Mycenaean Greek. 

14. Atua Mata Riri A creation chant collected by Thomson in 1886 issupposed to give a list of gods.This chant wasobtainedfromold Ure-vai-ko, whorecitedit as the text of a tablet. A translation made by Salmon isequally free., as heassumedthat the procreatorswere all godswhosenamesweremeaningless, and thusmisunderstood the true nature of the chant. The textgivenhereisbased on Thomson's and corrected by natives, but many verses are not intelligible. God-of-the-angry-look by copulatingwithRoundness (?)producedthe poporo(Solanumnigrum). Himahima-marao by copulatingwithLichen-growing-on-the-soilproduced the lichen. Oevai(?) bycopulatingwithFernproduced the fern. The Parent-motherby copulatingwithPipiri-hai-tauproducedwood. Dryness by copulatingwithHumu-toti (Tattooing-of-the-leg) produced the papermulberry. Ti by copulatingwith Ta [Tattooing] produced the ti. Elevation (?) by copulatingwithHighnessproduced the inland-grass.

15. We cannot accept the deciphering of the “genealogical myth” suggested by S. Fischer, but everybody agrees that the famous Santiago staff analysed by Fischer does have a very special structure being divided into groups of three graphemes each.

17. 4 + 2: 2 + 4: 2 + 2 + 2:

18. X and Y produced many twins:

19. Important common feature – the sign76 Text Gv: sign 76 in the last grapheme « rising » direction: son > father Text I: sign 76 in the first grapheme « Descending » direction: father > son

20. More than 550 generations ??? • More than 11000 years ???

21. Igor Pozdniakov (1.06.1927 – 16.1.2010)

35. POZDNIAKOV, K. and G. SEGERER. Similar Place Avoidance: A Statistical Universal. Linguistic Typology. 2007. Vol. 11(2), p. 307-348.

37. Fermin Moscoso del Prado. The universal “shape” of human languages: spectral analysis beyond speech // Nature Precedingshttp://precedings.nature.com/documents/6097/version/1

39. Another candidats for proper naming

40. one of the most perspective strategies of deciphering is looking for all unusual signs that seem to have no phonetic reading.

41. Many fragments of the Rapanui script have a very special structure: the text is divided into short segments separated by delimiters. A delimiter is a regularly occurring sign (like sign 76 in the Santiago Staff) or a combination of two or three signs

48. = = = Ca3Ab4Aa8

49. = = = = = = Ca3Ab4Aa8Pr7Hr8Qr7

50. « Calendar » - text C