Answer · Eteocretan and Eteocypriot

Both continue their Bronze Age local languages

Yes: Eteocretan descends from Minoan and Eteocypriot from a language written in Cypro-Minoan, each the local pre-Greek language surviving into the Iron Age.

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Where it stands

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

What it predicts

Distinctive Iron Age sequences will recur in the Bronze Age corpora read with independently fixed values, above the rate for shuffled sequences.

What would rule it out

Secure values for Linear A or Cypro-Minoan produce a language demonstrably different in morphology from Eteocretan or Eteocypriot.

Evidence 1 for · none against

Both Iron Age groups come from places of long pre-Greek settlement and are written in or beside scripts descended from…

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The questions it answers

Do Eteocretan and Eteocypriot continue the Bronze Age languages written in Linear A and Cypro-Minoan?

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Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Both continue their Bronze Age local languages [Answer ANS0DEECP9E8E4S]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DEECP9E8E4S

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  note      = {Answer, catalog key ANS0DEECP9E8E4S},
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