# Eteocretan is an isolate or lost-family language, probably Minoan's descendant

> Still possible: Eteocretan is a pre-Greek language of Crete, probably descended from Minoan, with no relatives that have other written records, so it…

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# Eteocretan is an isolate or lost-family language, probably Minoan's descendant

Eteocretan is a pre-Greek language of Crete, probably descended from Minoan, with no relatives that have other written records, so it cannot be identified by comparison.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- No systematic comparison with a known family will produce more matches than with random control languages.
- If Linear A values are ever confirmed, Eteocretan words or endings will recur in Linear A texts at above-chance rates.

## What would rule it out

- A proposed relative that reads all six stones with one grammar and fits the Greek of the Dreros bilingual.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[Duhoux's text-internal analysis finds a language that is neither Greek, Indo-European nor Semitic, and four decades of…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/evidence/EVD0DEED410296C/duhouxs-text-internal-analysis-finds-a-language-that-is)

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FOR

[The certain Eteocretan corpus is six stones totalling about 420 letters, too small for frequency methods to…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/evidence/EVD0DEED4G1FCSW/the-certain-eteocretan-corpus-is-six-stones-totalling-about)

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## The questions it answers

[What language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8QBDF18/what-language-do-the-eteocretan-inscriptions-of-praisos-and)

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