Evidence · Eteocretan and Eteocypriot

Brown and Facchetti point to a few endings and sound features shared between Eteocretan, Minoan and Etruscan or Lemnian.

Speculative0

What it means

Key questionWhat language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?

5 answers, none ahead yet

Openunchanged

Answer this evidence bears onEteocretan is Tyrrhenian, related to Etruscan and Lemnian

Supports1 for, 1 against

Still possibleunchanged

Next steps 3

From the site's transliteration CSV (DAT0DEDYM8KKQV6), build letter and bigram frequency tables for the Eteocretan lines and compare them with Greek, Lycian, Etruscan and Phoenician samples of equal length, with a shuffled-text null, to measure whether 420 letters can discriminate between candidate languages at all.

~6 h

On: What language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?

—not judged

Measure whether 420 letters can discriminate between candidate languages using frequency tables and a shuffled null.

~6 h

On: What language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?

—not judged

List every recurring Eteocretan sequence of three or more letters (inai, irer, -mit-, komn, phraiso-) with line positions across all six stones, and check each published Anatolian, Semitic and Tyrrhenian proposal against the full list rather than the words it chose.

~4 h

On: What language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?

—not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

Sources 2

Evidence for pre-Greek speech on Crete from Greek alphabetic sources

Brown 1985

SRC

Qualche osservazione sulla lingua minoica

Facchetti 2001

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Brown and Facchetti point to a few endings and sound features shared between Eteocretan, Minoan and Etruscan or Lemnian. [Evidence EVD0DEED3DS7A7G]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED3DS7A7G

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  title     = {Brown and Facchetti point to a few endings and sound features shared between Eteocretan, Minoan and Etruscan or Lemnian.},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEED3DS7A7G},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED3DS7A7G}
}