# The corpus is about 1,500 signs in short texts, no sound value is secure and no bilingual exists.

> The corpus is about 1,500 signs in short texts, no sound value is secure and no bilingual exists.

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Evidence · Cretan Hieroglyphic

# The corpus is about 1,500 signs in short texts, no sound value is secure and no bilingual exists.

The corpus is about 1,500 signs in short texts, no sound value is secure and no bilingual exists.

Supported0

## 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[The language cannot be identified from this corpus: it is an isolate or a language with no other written record, and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/answers/ANS0DEDZ6SE0F1B/the-language-cannot-be-identified-from-this-corpus-it-is-an)

Supports1 for, none 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

[Cretan Hieroglyphic Sign Repertoires: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKWQ4P0TK/cretan-hieroglyphic-sign-repertoires-yesterday-today-and)

Ferrara 2024

SRC

[Cretan Hieroglyphic: The Earliest Script on Crete. Semiotics, Linguistics, Archaeology and Palaeography](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGNWHJN54/cretan-hieroglyphic-the-earliest-script-on-crete-semiotics)

Civitillo et al. 2024

SRC

[Cretan hieroglyphs (Wikipedia article)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK86XR502/cretan-hieroglyphs-wikipedia-article)

contributors 2026

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The corpus is about 1,500 signs in short texts, no sound value is secure and no bilingual exists. [Evidence EVD0DEEAV65ZMB0]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEAV65ZMB0
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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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