# Languages

Each entry carries the language layer its proposed reading belongs to, and the forms it is compared with. A layer is a hypothesis about the word, not about the language of Linear A: proper names and loans travel.

## Semitic (565 entries)

Northwest Semitic (Ugaritic, Hebrew, Phoenician, Amorite), Akkadian, Eblaite, and readings that could be either.

[The Semitic entries](<https://linear-a.ai/languages/?family=semitic>)

## Hurrian (37 entries)

Names and words compared with Hurrian (Nuzi, Ugarit).

[The Hurrian entries](<https://linear-a.ai/languages/?family=hurrian>)

## Egyptian (13 entries)

Egyptian names and loans.

[The Egyptian entries](<https://linear-a.ai/languages/?family=egyptian>)

## Aegean substrate (10 entries)

Pre-Greek and Minoan forms with no outside source.

[The Aegean substrate entries](<https://linear-a.ai/languages/?family=aegean>)

## Logograms (9 entries)

Signs for goods, people and vessels, read with no language behind them.

[The Logograms entries](<https://linear-a.ai/languages/?family=logogram>)

## Anatolian (1 entries)

Names and theonyms that reached Crete through Anatolia or North Syria, whatever their origin.

[The Anatolian entries](<https://linear-a.ai/languages/?family=anatolian>)

## Indo-European (1 entries)

Indo-Aryan names of the Mitanni type.

[The Indo-European entries](<https://linear-a.ai/languages/?family=indo-european>)

## Sumerian (1 entries)

Sumerian names borrowed whole. Semitic words built on them stand under Semitic, tagged loanblend.

[The Sumerian entries](<https://linear-a.ai/languages/?family=sumerian>)

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