Eteocretan and EteocypriotEvidence
Evidence · Eteocretan and Eteocypriot
No identification outside the Anatolian, Semitic, Tyrrhenian and isolate positions has been argued in print for…
No identification outside the Anatolian, Semitic, Tyrrhenian and isolate positions has been argued in print for Eteocretan.
What it means
Key questionWhat language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?
5 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Still possiblewas No evidence yet
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
—not judged
2
Measure whether 420 letters can discriminate between candidate languages using frequency tables and a shuffled null.
~6 h
—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
—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
SRCDuhoux 1982
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). No identification outside the Anatolian, Semitic, Tyrrhenian and isolate positions has been argued in print for… [Evidence EVD0DEED4S6J43E]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED4S6J43E
@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0deed4s6j43e,
title = {No identification outside the Anatolian, Semitic, Tyrrhenian and isolate positions has been argued in print for…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEED4S6J43E},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED4S6J43E}
}