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“Imported from content/10-society.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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+---
+title: Linear A
+kind: problem
+status: open
+year: 1900
+statement: What language does the Minoan Linear A script write?
+space: scripts-and-the-past
+---
 
+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)
+ 
+[[Space:scripts-and-the-past|Scripts and the past]] · [[Continent:society|Society]]

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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.

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Scripts and the past · Society