# The same administrations kept the two scripts apart for two centuries, which some read as a sign of two languages or…

> The same administrations kept the two scripts apart for two centuries, which some read as a sign of two languages or two scribal communities.

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# The same administrations kept the two scripts apart for two centuries, which some read as a sign of two languages or…

The same administrations kept the two scripts apart for two centuries, which some read as a sign of two languages or two scribal communities.

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)

Counts against2 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 2

[Cretan Writing in the Second Millennium B.C.](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJFSH64K1/cretan-writing-in-the-second-millennium-b-c)

Olivier 1986

SRC

[The Relationship between Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A: a palaeographic and structural approach](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHEG2K8N6/the-relationship-between-cretan-hieroglyphic-and-linear-a-a)

Ferrara et al. 2022

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The same administrations kept the two scripts apart for two centuries, which some read as a sign of two languages or… [Evidence EVD0DEEAMGFAYWN]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEAMGFAYWN
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**EVD** 0DEEAMGFAYWN

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Evidence

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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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