# Both continue their Bronze Age local languages

> Still possible: Yes: Eteocretan descends from Minoan and Eteocypriot from a language written in Cypro-Minoan, each the local pre-Greek language surviving…

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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.

**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

- 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…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/evidence/EVD0DEEDHGNNFGN/both-iron-age-groups-come-from-places-of-long-pre-greek)

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## The questions it answers

[Do Eteocretan and Eteocypriot continue the Bronze Age languages written in Linear A and Cypro-Minoan?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8ZPM19P/do-eteocretan-and-eteocypriot-continue-the-bronze-age)

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