# Duhoux's text-internal analysis finds a language that is neither Greek, Indo-European nor Semitic, and four decades of…

> Duhoux's text-internal analysis finds a language that is neither Greek, Indo-European nor Semitic, and four decades of comparison since have produced no…

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# Duhoux's text-internal analysis finds a language that is neither Greek, Indo-European nor Semitic, and four decades of…

Duhoux's text-internal analysis finds a language that is neither Greek, Indo-European nor Semitic, and four decades of comparison since have produced no accepted reading.

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## 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 an isolate or lost-family language, probably Minoan's descendant](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/answers/ANS0DEEC5M7D8WD/eteocretan-is-an-isolate-or-lost-family-language-probably)

Supports1 for, none 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

[L'Étéocrétois: les textes, la langue](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKHFFY85X/leteocretois-les-textes-la-langue)

Duhoux 1982

SRC

[The Enigma of the Eteocretans: Language, Identity, and Politics in Ancient Crete](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDQEQECRRX/the-enigma-of-the-eteocretans-language-identity-and-politics)

Zitelli 2024

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Duhoux's text-internal analysis finds a language that is neither Greek, Indo-European nor Semitic, and four decades of… [Evidence EVD0DEED410296C]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED410296C
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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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