# The Luwian reading has not been adopted by Aegean or Anatolian specialists, and its sign derivations from Egyptian are…

> The Luwian reading has not been adopted by Aegean or Anatolian specialists, and its sign derivations from Egyptian are disputed one by one.

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# The Luwian reading has not been adopted by Aegean or Anatolian specialists, and its sign derivations from Egyptian are…

The Luwian reading has not been adopted by Aegean or Anatolian specialists, and its sign derivations from Egyptian are disputed one by one.

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## 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

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Answer this evidence bears on[Cretan Hieroglyphic records Luwian, an Anatolian language, and its signs derive from Egyptian hieroglyphs.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/answers/ANS0DEDZ57Q1KBE/cretan-hieroglyphic-records-luwian-an-anatolian-language-and)

Counts againstnone for, 1 against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## 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

[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 'Trowel'-sign (Evans No. 18): Another Instance of Egyptian Influence on Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMATYA3Z0/the-trowel-sign-evans-no-18-another-instance-of-egyptian)

Woudhuizen 2002

SRC

[The Making of a Script: Cretan Hieroglyphic and the Quest for Its Origins](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHAWENKAX/the-making-of-a-script-cretan-hieroglyphic-and-the-quest-for)

Ferrara 2021

SRC

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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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