Talk:Eteocretan language

message: Let's remove the term isolate from the lead of the article. I'd say whoever wrote that is unclear on the definition of a language isolate. A language isolate is a language with a reasonable amount of documentation that has been evaluated by scholars for a sufficient period of time to know that the language is not closely related to any other known language or group. You can't say that a language is an isolate until you have enough data on it to determine its classification. 
We have insufficient data on Eteocretan to make any such determination. Eteocretan is just unclassified and that's all we've got. Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 21:24, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclassified ≠ isolate 

message: My belief is that the Minoan language is closely related to Phoenician and Hebrew. What's yours?
Anonymous173.57.44.147 (talk) 04:29, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That's what Cyrus Gordon believed, but I don't think it's widely accepted... AnonMoos (talk) 16:25, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: My belief is based on an old Greek myth about Europa who is depicted as a Phoenician. Anonymous173.57.44.147 (talk) 03:34, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beliefs 

message: When I hit upon this page, I found these glaring errors:
* The Phaistos Disc is not in Linear A.  It is in an unique script that is perhaps a variant of the Cretan Hieroglyphic script, but that still is not the same as Linear A.
* It is uncertain whether Eteocretan (the language of alphabetic non-Greek inscriptions of ancient Crete) was a descendant of whatever language was (or languages were) written in Linear A, Cretan hieroglyphics or on the Phaistos Disc, or came to the island later.  It certainly is not the same language: it is more than 1,000 years later, and languages change a lot in 1,000 years.
--WeepingElf (talk) 21:58, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phaistos Disc, Linear A and Etrocretan are not the same 

message: I have cleared out the Augiastic mess the page was (it was almost entirely about Minoan, which may have been an ancestor of Eteocretan, but still a different language, and probably written up by a crackpot), and replaced the entire content by a translation of the page in the German Wikipedia which is shorter but better. --WeepingElf (talk) 15:32, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complete re-do 

message: I am grateful that the Weeping Elf has removed the unsatisfactory page and, as a temporary measure, replaced it with a translation of the more accurate German Wikipedia page.
I am endeavoring to expand this and give more links and fuller references.  This may take several days to do, as I also have other commitments.   But I would like to see a subject that has occupied me for more than thirty years better presented on Wikipedia.
Cretophilus (talk) 16:20, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for that. Now, if in a few more weeks you were able to do the same with Minoan ... — kwami (talk) 03:13, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upgrading Weeping Elf's complete redo 

message: I've redirected Linear A language (an ISO name with associated code) to Minoan language. — kwami (talk) 03:01, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Break

message: Substituted at 14:42, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The text says the inscription reads et isalabre komn men inai isaluria lmo tuprmēriēia, but the word iniai appears in the text below it. Which one is it? Jalwikip (talk) 11:42, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''inai'' or ''iniai''? 

message: : "The only clearly complete word on the earliest Praisos inscription is barze, and there is no indication of its meaning."
The Georgian word for "Greek" is berdzeni.  Maybe these Minoans had early contact with Indo-Europeans.  Just sayin'.  Correctrix (talk) 13:50, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Barze''