# Davis's 2024 syllabotactic comparison finds that the shared signs combine within words in similar ways in both scripts.

> Davis's 2024 syllabotactic comparison finds that the shared signs combine within words in similar ways in both scripts.

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# Davis's 2024 syllabotactic comparison finds that the shared signs combine within words in similar ways in both scripts.

Davis's 2024 syllabotactic comparison finds that the shared signs combine within words in similar ways in both scripts.

Suggestive0

## What it means

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

6 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Cretan Hieroglyphic records the same Minoan language as Linear A.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/answers/ANS0DEDYQ1E9ZDN/cretan-hieroglyphic-records-the-same-minoan-language-as)

Supports2 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 4

1

Build an open sign-level table of the CHIC clay documents (H 1 to 122): document id, site, object type, each sign group in CHIC sign numbers with position, logograms and numerals; licence the table separately from CHIC's images. This is the prerequisite for every test below.

~40 h

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

**—** not judged

2

Build an open sign-level table of the CHIC clay documents in CHIC sign numbers.

~40 h

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

**—** not judged

3

Compare word-initial and word-final frequencies of the signs shared with Linear A in that table against SigLA/GORILA Linear A and against Linear B Greek, with a shuffled-sign null model, to test whether Cretan Hieroglyphic patterns like Linear A (H-MINOAN).

~12 h

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

**—** not judged

4

Apply the Corazza et al. 2021 Linear A fraction values to the hieroglyphic fraction signs (CHIC 301 to 309) on every clay document with a total, and report how many totals add up versus random value assignments.

~8 h

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

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 3

[Do Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A record the same language? A syllabotactic test (chapter 8 of Cretan Hieroglyphic)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKZWFPAYA/do-cretan-hieroglyphic-and-linear-a-record-the-same-language)

Davis 2024

SRC

[Review of M. Civitillo, S. Ferrara, T. Meissner (eds), Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK45N1KZM/review-of-m-civitillo-s-ferrara-t-meissner-eds-cretan)

Donnelly 2026

SRC

[The Phaistos Disk: A New Way of Viewing the Language Behind the Script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CQHJYJE4TNT/the-phaistos-disk-a-new-way-of-viewing-the-language-behind)

D 2018

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Davis's 2024 syllabotactic comparison finds that the shared signs combine within words in similar ways in both scripts. [Evidence EVD0DEEAJ9XQ0KA]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEAJ9XQ0KA
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**EVD** 0DEEAJ9XQ0KA

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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/sessions/SES0DEECGMX10RS/session-1-cretan-hieroglyphic-seeded-corpus-readings-and) · 31 Oct 2026

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