# Etruscologists including Rix and De Simone judge the shared features too few to show relationship, and the Minoan side…

> Etruscologists including Rix and De Simone judge the shared features too few to show relationship, and the Minoan side depends on unconfirmed Linear A…

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# Etruscologists including Rix and De Simone judge the shared features too few to show relationship, and the Minoan side…

Etruscologists including Rix and De Simone judge the shared features too few to show relationship, and the Minoan side depends on unconfirmed Linear A readings.

Suggestive0

## What it means

Key question[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)

5 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Eteocretan is Tyrrhenian, related to Etruscan and Lemnian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/answers/ANS0DEEC5AY3NQH/eteocretan-is-tyrrhenian-related-to-etruscan-and-lemnian)

Counts against1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 3

1

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

**—** not judged

2

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

**—** not judged

3

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

**—** not judged

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

## Sources 2

[Aegean Linear Script(s): Rethinking the Relationship between Linear A and Linear B](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CQHJXK61P6J/aegean-linear-script-s-rethinking-the-relationship-between)

S 2020

SRC

[Eteocretan language](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDRWJD48DY/eteocretan-language)

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## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Etruscologists including Rix and De Simone judge the shared features too few to show relationship, and the Minoan side… [Evidence EVD0DEED3MZVF09]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED3MZVF09
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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/sessions/SES0DEEE7NHGFE2/session-1-eteocretan-and-eteocypriot-seeded-corpus-readings) · 31 Oct 2026

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