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The script Linear B came from, unread.
Also known as: Minoan script, Undeciphered Aegean script
The Minoan script from which Linear B was adapted, and which remains undeciphered.
Writes an unidentified language of Minoan Crete and has not been deciphered.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Its signs can be given sound values by assuming they match Linear B's, which produces pronounceable words in no known language — so the script can be read aloud and not understood, which is a rarer state than being unreadable.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Claimed decipherments are published regularly and none is accepted.
No decipherment of Linear A is established.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Signs closely resembling those of Linear B, written left to right on tablets and on ritual objects.
Both can be pronounced without being understood, a state distinct from being undeciphered.