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Re:Exploring Linear A by OfSanguineFire on Sunday July 16, 2023 @05:20PM (#36751518)
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.
Re:Exploring Linear A by dmarchand90 on Sunday July 16, 2023 @06:42PM (#36752154)
What kind of corpus do we have? Is it largely fragmented segments with a few symbols?
Re:Exploring Linear A by civilitty on Sunday July 16, 2023 @08:49PM (#36752898)
> 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