# Linear A

- kind: problem
- status: open
- year: 1900

**Statement.** What language does the Minoan Linear A script write?

The sound values can be partly read from Linear B, which descends from it, but the language itself is unknown and seems unrelated to any known family. The corpus is small, about 1,400 inscriptions, mostly short.

## Sources

- [Wikipedia: Linear A](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A)

[Scripts and the past](/wiki/Space:scripts-and-the-past.md) · [Society](/wiki/Continent:society.md)

## Relations to this page

- related to [linear-b](/wiki/Problem:linear-b.md) — The original curation links this problem to Linear A; the argument for the link has not been written yet.

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