# \*86 > Linear A syllabic *86, speculative: na. A page of the Linear A Lexicon's research wiki, in [Wiki]() › [Kaphtor Lexicon]() › [Signs]() › [Syllabic signs](). Updated 2026-10-24. **Status: speculative.** A speculative value. ## Phonetic value | Field | Value | |---|---| | Value | /na/ | | Alternates | /ṇa/ | | Linear B | B 86, value None | | Linear B Unicode | U+1005C LINEAR B SYMBOL B086 | | Linear B note | Listed in AB catalog but not attested with confirmed value in Linear B | | Neutralization class | N | ### Alternate values | Value | Evidence | | --- | --- | | /ṇa/ | Emphatic nasal. No test separates it from na, and Proto-Semitic has no emphatic nasal. | ### Forms cited for the value - Without HT11b (where \*86 and the logogram KA are separate signs, \*86 · KA 40): every cognate is a plain-n root; no word is spelled with both \*86 and NA, and no environment contrasts them; Proto-Semitic has no emphatic nasal. With the reading hidden, na ranks first (0.795), ahead of ro (0.769) and da (0.767). ### Note Speculative. A mostly standalone sign (16 of 24 tokens) whose syllabic value is undetermined: na leads ro and da by a hair (0.795, 0.769, 0.767), and NA (AB06) and \*301 already write na. The emphatic ṇa stays an alternate; no test separates it from na. Syllabic witnesses are few: \*86-SI-NI (HT140); \*86-RO, \*86 on face a and RO on face g of KHWa1013–1016, one scribe; RE-\*86 (MILZb4), the second sign incomplete. In \*86-SI-\*118-KA (HT140) \*86 lies in the break. The other tokens are standalone \*86 with a numeral or the \*86+\*188 ligature. HT11b gives no co-occurrence proof: there \*86 stands before the logogram KA and its numeral. Linear B \*86 survives at 6 attestations, mostly in substrate toponyms, with no value. ## Linked from - [Syllabic signs]() --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/wiki/lexicon/signs/syllabic/star86/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.