Berthold Frommann wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> > Linear B is a syllabary, apparently unrelated to anything else
> > around, even Egyptian.
> And how about the Vinca-characters?
> (cf. Rudolf Hartmann, "Universalgeschichte der Schrift")

As I said in WWS, "No claim seems to have been put forward that any
recurring sequences of signs have been identified, and the first step in
any lingustic analysis is the identification of strings that are the
same or partly the same." (p. 22)

Hartmann's book is crammed with errors. (Unfortunately Dietz Otto Edzard
mentioned this to me about two days after my special-ordered copy
arrived and was paid for, and I never had the heart to read it. The
illustrations are mostly copied from Jensen.)
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...