Is any progress being made in deciphering Linear A?”
The challenge of linear A is there aren’t many examples and the spoken language it comes from isn’t known. In code breaking, the more material you have the easier the task. Certain phrases repeat themselves, spelling can be inferred by letter occurrence, (In English it’s e,t,a,o,i,n) and so on. Before the battle of Midway the island was identified by the Japanese as “AF.” American code breakers sent a bogus message that Midway was low on water. Shortly afterwards they intersected a Japanese signal that said “AF” was low on water. With the text: “Linear A inscriptions found to date are (so far as I am aware) at most a few lines long… no literature, correspondence or even complete inscriptions, hence the use of a very limited number of words. And such short fragments of text simply cannot be understood in a meaningful way. ” http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Article/730819 What is known: Linear A was used between about 1800 and 1450 BC. • Linear A is mixed script consisting of 60 phoneti
