What language or languages does Cypro-Minoan write?
Most likely: the language is unrelated to any known language, and the evidence cannot yet identify itAhead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Where it stands
Four answers have been proposed. The language is unrelated to any known language, and the evidence cannot yet identify it. leads, with evidence 1 for: partly supported by its tests. Three are still possible. Of the two narrower questions under it, none is answered yet.
Answers 4
History
- Palaima puts forward: the language is unrelated to any known language, and the evidence cannot yet identify it.
- Palaima: all decipherment schemes up to 1989 were judged improbable, and none since has been accepted.For: The language is unrelated to any known language, and the evidence cannot yet identify it.
- Valério puts forward: one script was used for more than one language, including a Semitic language at Ugarit.
- Valério: valério reads several personal names known from cuneiform in the Ugarit tablet RS 20.25.For: One script was used for more than one language, including a Semitic language at Ugarit.
- Janko puts forward: cypro-Minoan on Cyprus writes Eteocypriot, the non-Greek language later written in the Cypriot syllabary.
- Janko: the structure of the Enkomi cylinder is read as an account in a language that could be Eteocypriot.For: Cypro-Minoan on Cyprus writes Eteocypriot, the non-Greek language later written in the Cypriot syllabary.
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