re pre-greek language

[Rick Mc Callister]

There were attempts to link Linear scripts to earlier Anatolian scripts
especially what's sometimes called "Hittite Hieroglyphic" [actually Palaic,
I think]

[ Moderator's note:
  Luwian, rather than Palaic.
  --rma ]

There have also attempts to read Linear A as one or another Anatolian language

>There is many problems about the pre-greek languages of the Aegean, and
>Linear A is only one of them.
>Linear A is autochtonous and cannot be derived from cuneifor or
>hieroglyph, so it must have evolved from local pictograms and thus
>reflects the language it was first designed for (even if it was not
>perfect). But that is not the main reason for thinking that the
>indigenous language of Crete was not Greek.
[snip]

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701