WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Print ISSN: 1790-0832, E-ISSN: 2224-3402
Volume 14, 2017
Establishing the West-Ugric Language Family with Minoan, Hattic and Hungarian by a Decipherment of Linear A
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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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Keywords: computational linguistics, Cretan script family, decipherment, Linear A, similarity measure
Pages: 306-335
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-0832 / 2224-3402, Volume 14, 2017, Art. #30