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B
Linear B was deciphered by an English architect and self-taught linguist Michael Ventris, based on research from classicist Alice Kober.
Linear B consists of 87 syllabic signs and over 100 ideographic signs.
NOTE
Wow, to the below. I was saying to myself - what do I interact with that is a written but without phonetic form?
Emojis are this.
These ideograms or “signifying” signs symbolize objects or commodities. They have no phonetic value and are used as word signs in writing a sentence.
Linear B use seems confined to administrative contexts.
Linear B uses ideograms to express a unit, and the type of object (cow, spear)
A
Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization.
Linear A shares many glyphs and alloglyphs (def: seems to be different ways to write a letter?) with Linear B, and the syllabic glyphs are thought to notate similar syllabic values, but none of the proposed readings lead to a language that scholars can read.
Linear A has not been fully deciphered. However, researchers are reasonably confident in the approximate sound values of most syllabic signs and are able to make inferences about the meanings of some texts.
One major barrier to its decipherment is the limited surviving corpus. Only around 1400 Linear A inscriptions survive, in contrast to the 6000 available for Linear B. As a result, researchers are stuck with limited sample sizes, making it difficult to reliably detect patterns
homomorphy-homophony principle which states that in related writing systems, signs with similar forms will generally have similar phonetic values
Linear A does not appear to encode any known language.