Re:Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research
by adrian_b on Sunday May 15, 2022 @02:44PM
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If all that text would have been that of a story, there would still have been a chance to decipher it.
Even worse than the small number of texts is that all, or almost all, are just bookkeeping records, so they contain few words besides numbers, symbols for useful goods, e.g. wine, olive oil, barley, wool and so on, and proper names of places or people.
So even if there might be a few hundreds of texts, most just reproduce the same phrases, only with different numbers and names substituted in them.
Any statistics on this handful of stereotype phrases will offer no information about the statistics of the words of the Minoan language as used in a normal conversation or story telling.
There's not enough text to do statistical analysis.