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Harald Haarmann

German linguist, the main academic proponent of the "Danube script" as the world's earliest writing and an ancestor of Linear A Born 1946.

Harald Haarmann is german linguist and writer on the history of writing (born 1946) (born 1946), and appears in the record of Vinča signs as german linguist, the main academic proponent of the "Danube script" as the world's earliest writing and an ancestor of Linear A.

One event on the site involves Haarmann: The Signs of Civilization symposium at Novi Sad gives the Danube script thesis an academic platform (May 2004).

Two questions rest in part on what Haarmann did or said, among them “Do the Vinča signs record language, a conventional notation, or neither?”, which stands open: 6 answers, none ahead.

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