Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle
by petjuh on Saturday June 20, 2026 @08:31AM
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Ok, but Hurro-Urartian is an agglutinative language family that is an isolate and has nothing to do with Semitic.
Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle
by peterfirefly on Saturday June 20, 2026 @03:12PM
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There are two relevant decipherment ideas: the new one that is the first one sufficiently "un-bad" to be taken seriously and the one by the Dutch emeritus.
The Dutch guy thinks he can recognize some names (personal and toponyms) and that seems to be his main evidence for Linear A being Hurrian/Urartian. His theory doesn't seem very convincing (and his youtube videos are incredibly booooring).
Claude helped write code to read and parse the corpora and to do some fairly basic statistical analysis along the lines of "which Linear A symbols most often occur together" and "if we use known Linear B sound values, which of the other corpora most often have vowel similarities with the Linear A corpus".
You can write that code yourself or you can ask an LLVM to write it for you. The provenience of the code isn't important.
*) He later deleted some of them, I think. What was still there on reddit a few weeks ago had dead links to a web site of his with statistical tables and I believe also code.