> Or are you saying that Linear A and Linear B might be the same script (as in phoneme->symbol encoding), but used to express a different language? That was my

> Or are you saying that Linear A and Linear B might be the same script (as in phoneme->symbol encoding), but used to express a different language? That was my understanding but I didn't think that was a new hypothesis - I remember reading years ago that they were a very similar alphabet (for lack of a better word) and that linear B was just the locals using their alphabet to write ancient Greek. I believe something similar was done in Germany a few hundred years ago - the Bible was written in Hebrew script that encoded German words.