Evidence · Cretan Hieroglyphic

The Uralic reading groups scripts by computed shape similarity, which does not establish shared sound values, and its…

The Uralic reading groups scripts by computed shape similarity, which does not establish shared sound values, and its Linear A counterpart has no following among epigraphers.

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What it means

Key questionWhat language does Cretan Hieroglyphic record?

6 answers, none ahead yet

Openunchanged

Answer this evidence bears onCretan Hieroglyphic belongs to a script family readable through a Uralic language related to Hungarian.

Counts againstnone for, 1 against

Still possiblewas No evidence yet

Next steps 4

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?

—not judged

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

~40 h

On: What language does Cretan Hieroglyphic record?

—not judged

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?

—not judged

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?

—not judged

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

Sources 2

Minoan Cryptanalysis: Computational Approaches to Deciphering Linear A and Assessing Its Connections with Language Families from the Mediterranean and the Black Sea Areas

N 2024

SRC

The Cretan Script Family Includes the Carian Alphabet

Revesz 2017

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). The Uralic reading groups scripts by computed shape similarity, which does not establish shared sound values, and its… [Evidence EVD0DEEAT781ZWN]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEAT781ZWN

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  title     = {The Uralic reading groups scripts by computed shape similarity, which does not establish shared sound values, and its…},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEEAT781ZWN},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEAT781ZWN}
}