Minoan language
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Minoan | |
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Linear A tablet
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Region | Crete |
Era | About 1800–1450 BC |
Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either: omn – Minoan lab – Linear A |
Linguist list
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omn Minoan |
lab Linear A |
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Glottolog | mino1236 (Minoan)[1] |
The language (or languages) of the ancient Minoan civilization of Crete was written in Cretan hieroglyphs and later in the Linear A syllabary. As the Cretan hieroglyphs are undeciphered and Linear A only partly deciphered, the Minoan language is unknown and unclassified—and indeed, it cannot be known that the two scripts record the same language, or even that a single language is recorded in each. The Eteocretan language, attested in a few alphabetic inscriptions from Crete a thousand years later, is possibly a descendant of Minoan, but it is itself unclassified.
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