# Cretan Hieroglyphic records the same Minoan language as Linear A.

> Still possible: Cretan Hieroglyphic records the same Minoan language as Linear A.

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# Cretan Hieroglyphic records the same Minoan language as Linear A.

Cretan Hieroglyphic records the same Minoan language as Linear A.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Two pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Sign groups shared between the scripts, such as the Archanes formula and Linear A libation-formula words, occupy the same positions and show the same variants in both.
- Linear A fraction values make the totals on hieroglyphic clay documents add up.
- Word-initial and word-final sign frequencies, under an agreed sign list, match between the two scripts better than between either and Linear B Greek.

## What would rule it out

- A document in both scripts shows different words for the same referent.
- Positional statistics of shared signs differ between the scripts as strongly as Linear A differs from Linear B Greek, once the sign list is agreed.
- Linear A fraction values make the hieroglyphic totals fail systematically.

## Evidence 2 for · 1 against

[Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A were used at the same time in the same palaces, on the same kinds of administrative…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEAA6BZ807/cretan-hieroglyphic-and-linear-a-were-used-at-the-same-time)

Supported

FOR

[Davis's 2024 syllabotactic comparison finds that the shared signs combine within words in similar ways in both scripts.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEAJ9XQ0KA/daviss-2024-syllabotactic-comparison-finds-that-the-shared)

Suggestive

FOR

[The same administrations kept the two scripts apart for two centuries, which some read as a sign of two languages or…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEAMGFAYWN/the-same-administrations-kept-the-two-scripts-apart-for-two)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What language does Cretan Hieroglyphic record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWHYH7XCD/what-language-does-cretan-hieroglyphic-record)

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