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What language does Linear A encode?

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Linear A has never been deciphered. Roughly seventy percent of its signs reappear in Linear B with known phonetic values, but Linear A itself used those same signs for a different, unidentified language, conventionally called Minoan, which cannot be confidently linked to any known language family.

What would resolve this A substantial bilingual inscription pairing Linear A with a known deciphered script or language, or a breakthrough matching its sign values to a specific language family with broad scholarly acceptance, neither of which exists today.
OpenAegean philology and historical linguisticsAeon Essays: Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan script?
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