# The certain Eteocretan corpus is six stones totalling about 420 letters, too small for frequency methods to…

> The certain Eteocretan corpus is six stones totalling about 420 letters, too small for frequency methods to discriminate between candidate languages, so…

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# The certain Eteocretan corpus is six stones totalling about 420 letters, too small for frequency methods to…

The certain Eteocretan corpus is six stones totalling about 420 letters, too small for frequency methods to discriminate between candidate languages, so failure of comparison is weak evidence on its own.

Established0

## 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)

Bears on1 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

[Eteocretan Language Pages (web edition of the inscriptions)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDQD1K51XM/eteocretan-language-pages-web-edition-of-the-inscriptions)

Brown 2003

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). The certain Eteocretan corpus is six stones totalling about 420 letters, too small for frequency methods to… [Evidence EVD0DEED4G1FCSW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED4G1FCSW
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