# Cretan Hieroglyphic records Luwian, an Anatolian language, and its signs derive from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

> Still possible: Cretan Hieroglyphic records Luwian, an Anatolian language, and its signs derive from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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# Cretan Hieroglyphic records Luwian, an Anatolian language, and its signs derive from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Cretan Hieroglyphic records Luwian, an Anatolian language, and its signs derive from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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

## Where it stands

**Still possible** None pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The sign groups on seals and clay, read with the proposed values, yield Luwian names and words consistently across the corpus.
- Newly excavated documents read as Luwian with the published values without new assumptions.

## What would rule it out

- The proposed values give different readings for the same recurring sign group in different documents.
- A reading of the clay accounts with the values fails to produce Luwian numerals or commodity words where the logograms and numbers fix the meaning.

## Evidence none for · 1 against

[The Luwian reading has not been adopted by Aegean or Anatolian specialists, and its sign derivations from Egyptian are…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEAQ7XSEHY/the-luwian-reading-has-not-been-adopted-by-aegean-or)

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