# Harald Haarmann · Person

> German linguist, the main academic proponent of the "Danube script" as the world's earliest writing and an ancestor of Linear A. In The Vinča signs.

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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.**

[The Vinča signs](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs)[1 event][1 source]

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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## In the mysteries

**The Vinča signs**

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[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs)

[Do the Vinča signs record language, a conventional notation, or neither?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/questions/QST0DEDW2Y5RPT1/do-the-vinca-signs-record-language-a-conventional-notation)Open: 6 answers, none ahead

[How many distinct Vinča signs are there, and how stable is the inventory across sites and phases?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/questions/QST0DEDW37PF87Q/how-many-distinct-vinca-signs-are-there-and-how-stable-is)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

## What Harald Haarmann did 1

May 2004[The Signs of Civilization symposium at Novi Sad gives the Danube script thesis an academic platform](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/events/EVT0DEDT2FSSKMF/the-signs-of-civilization-symposium-at-novi-sad-gives-the)

with [Marco Merlini](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/FIG0DEDQ7CH0BF2/marco-merlini)

## Worked with 1

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**Marco Merlini**

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## Sources 1

[The Danube Script and Other Ancient Writing Systems: A Typology of Distinctive Features](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMKHPVANW/the-danube-script-and-other-ancient-writing-systems-a)

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1946

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Proponent of the Old European / Danube script thesis (1990, 1995, 2008, 2010)

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German linguist and writer on the history of writing (born 1946)

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