Establishing the West-Ugric Language Family with Minoan, Hattic and Hungarian by a Decipherment of Linear A

Abstract

This paper develops a feature-based similarity measure to visually compare script symbols from different alphabets and syllabaries and then uses that similarity measure within a novel algorithm to develop a new phonetic grid for Linear A. The phonetic grid is then used to develop an English-Minoan-Uralic dictionary of basic words and grammatical suffixes and prefixes. The dictionary is then used in translating twenty-eight Linear A and one Eteocretan inscription. The proposed algorithm could likely be modified to decipher other unknown languages and could become a widely used tool in computational linguistics.

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