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Curious, what concrete progress have professional linguists made on deciphering Linear A?

• OfSanguineFire 3y ago
  None. And that is in spite of massive attempts over the 20th century, including some of the first applications of computers to a problem of this nature. The conclusion drawn from this lack of progress is that the corpus is simply too small for decipherment and/or we lack any surviving relatives for the language that the script recorded.
  • dmarchand90 3y ago
    What kind of corpus do we have? Is it largely fragmented segments with a few symbols?
    • civilitty 3y ago
      > The extant corpus, comprising some 1,427 specimens totalling 7,362 to 7,396 signs, if scaled to standard type, would fit easily on two sheets of paper. [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A#Corpus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A#Corpus