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AUTHOR(S): Mavridaki A., Zacharis N., Giachos I., Papakitsos E.
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TITLE A Machine-Readable Dictionary for the Corpus of Linear-A Script |
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ABSTRACT The present paper describes a machine-readable dictionary for the corpus of Linear-A script, which is part of a relevant software platform, developed to facilitate scholars in deciphering Linear-A script. Although the script of Linear-A is conventionally called “Minoan language” quite often, the actual underlying language still remains unknown, without a certain linguistic affinity. The entire project aims at providing scholars/researchers standardized digital resources for the study of Linear-A that has been discovered more than a century ago, inscribed in a total of 1644 artefacts. Yet, despite of this relatively large quantity of artefacts, only a small number is useful for linguistic purposes (i.e., for deciphering attempts), something that makes the deciphering process even more difficult. Several databases of Linear-A exist, mainly in the form of images, none of them being machine-readable, i.e., able of being directly accessible by a programming language for computational processing. The presented herein machine-readable dictionary has been developed following the methodology described in a previous series of works, which includes the method of Syllabic Grouping for allowing the search-engine of the software platform to discover possible cognates of Linear-A words to the other contemporary languages of the platform. Its design and how this facilitates the study of Linear-A corpus are presented and discussed. |
KEYWORDS Linear-A, Minoan Language, Aegean Scripts, Bronze Age Crete, Cretan Protolinear Script, Syllabic Grouping, Machine-Readable Dictionary |
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Cite this paper Mavridaki A., Zacharis N., Giachos I., Papakitsos E.. (2025) A Machine-Readable Dictionary for the Corpus of Linear-A Script. International Journal of Computers, 10, 235-243 |
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