The Decipherment of Minoan Linear A, Volume I, Part I

The Decipherment of Minoan Linear A, Volume I: Hurrians and Hurrian in Minoan Crete, Part I, text, bibliography, maps, appendices,



In this monograph the author has reviewed several attempts to decipher the script of Minoan Linear A and has concluded that none could be accepted as presenting consistent phonological, morphological and syntactical evidence, necessary in the case of decipherment of a script, if the idiom written with it is unknown. Using phonological and morphological evidence he has shown by linguistic methods that Linear A reflects the notation of an idiom with very specific phonological features and with a morphology of agglutinative character. This idiom has been identified as a Hurrian dialect that can be described as Minoan-Hurrian. The new revised and extended edition of The decipherment of Minoan Linear A offers irrefutable linguistic evidence showing that the idiom written with Minoan Linear A can be nothing else than a Minoan branch of the Hurrian language.

The quantity and quality of evidence make it now justifiable to officially announce the decipherment of the idiom of Minoan Linear A as Hurrian. The 2016 edition of Volume I consisted of two parts. The 2022 edition of Volume I has grown to six parts. The title of Minoan Linear A, Volume I, has changed to The decipherment of Minoan Linear A: Hurrians and Hurrian in Minoan Crete.