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Not to be confused with Minoan, the language written in Linear A a millennium earlier than Eteocretan. Eteocretan 200pxEteocretan Inscription from PraisosNative to Dreros, PraisosRegion CreteEra late 7th–3rd century BCLanguage family unclassified </div></td>Writing system Greek alphabetLanguage codesISO 639-3 ecrLinguist List ecr Eteocretan is the non-Greek language of a few alphabetic inscriptions of ancient Crete. In eastern Crete about half a dozen inscriptions have been found which, though written in Greek alphabets, are clearly not Greek. These inscriptions date from the late 7th or early 6th century down to the 3rd century BC. The language, which is not understood, is probably a survival of a language spoken on Crete before the arrival of Greeks and may well be derived from the Minoan language preserved in the Linear A inscriptions of a millennium earlier. But as that language still remains to be deciphered, we cannot say for sure that Eteocretan and Minoan are related. Ancient testimony suggests that the language is that of the Eteocretans, i.e. True Cretans. Unfortunately, the term 'Eteocretan' is sometimes applied to the Minoan language(s) written more than a millennium earlier in so-called Cretan 'hieroglyphics' (almost certainly a syllabary) and in the Linear A script. But as Yves Duhoux, who is probably the leading authority on Eteocretan today, wrote: 'il est essentiel de séparer rigoureusement l'étude de l'étéocrétois de celle des inscriptions ″hiéroglyphiques″ et linéaires A' (it is essential to rigorously separate the study of Eteocretan from that of the ″hieroglyphic″ and Linear A inscriptions).
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