Abstract: In the modern age of computer technology, with the introduction of artificial intelligence and disciplines of computational linguistics and language engineering, an attempt can be made to decipher the language of the Indus script, provided that the scholars working in these fields along with some linguists believe that the underlying language of these signs in the inscriptions neither an offspring of Sanskrit, nor is it any of the languages Dravidian family[1]but it is the ancient parent language of most of the languages spoken in the valley of the river sindhu- the indus, ie Sindhi, Saraiki, Punjabi, Hindko etc, that was the indigenous language of Indus valley civilization. We can call it Proto-Sindhu or Proto-Sindhi after the name of the river Sindhu, the life line of our region.

About scholar: Dr Fahmida Hussain is a well-known author, scholar, linguist and intellectual of Pakistan. Her fields of work have been: Literature, Linguistics, Woman studies and Anthropology. Her specialization is in the study of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. Dr Fahmida was the Chairperson of Sindhi Language Authority, Director of Shah Abdul Latif Chair, University of Karachi for many years. Prior to that she had also served as Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Sindhi at the University of Karachi. She has written 15 books along with several research articles on the subjects of Literary Criticism, Linguistics with special reference to different aspects of Sindhi language, poetry of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai and gender issues. She has been writing columns, articles and critiques in various newspapers and magazines from the last 40 years.