Re: Language of the Minoans. Was it Indo-European

From: mkelkar2003
Message: 42093
Date: 2005-11-14

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Josh" <linguist2005@...> wrote:
>
> I am writing a research paper that is discussing the possible origin
> of the language of the Minoan civilization.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MINOA/HISTORY.HTM

http://www.anistor.co.hol.gr/english/vpoints/v053.htm

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/pre-greece/minoan/minoan.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization

"The language of the Minoans, about which little is known, is referred
to as Eteocretan. It may have been written in the undeciphered Linear
A script."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eteocretan

"Very little is known about Eteocretan except that it may be the
language used on the Linear A tablets. It is generally described as
non-Indo-European or rather pre-Indo-European. The late Prof. Cyrus
Gordon, better known for his work on Ugaritic, argued that it was a
Semitic language closely related to Phoenician, but his attempted
decipherments have been proven to be inaccurate and have not been
accepted by other linguists. A relationship with Luwian, an Anatolian
language, has also been suggested."

The Eteocretan Language
http://www.carolandray.plus.com/Eteocretan/Eteocretan.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A765146

http://www.archaeology.org/0405/newsbriefs/cretans.html

Minoans (Peoples of the Past) (Hardcover)
by J. Lesley Fitton

M. kelkar