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To: Renfield

I thought it was well established that Minoan script is a form of early Greek.


9 posted on 07/12/2014 5:56:45 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx

Not exactly.

The Minoans used two methods of writing, hieroglyphics (probably derived from but not the same as the Egyptian variety) and Linear A, a script but not an alphabet, which may have developed out of the hieroglyphs. Neither has been deciphered.

Linear A developed on the mainland among the barbaric Myceaneans into Linear B script, which has been deciphered and shown to be early Greek.

All attempts to similarly decipher Linear A have failed, which probably means the Minoans spoke a completely unrelated language.


16 posted on 07/12/2014 7:27:34 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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