Minoan language

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Minoan
Linear A tablet
Region	Crete
Era	About 2100–1450 BC
Language family	unclassified
Writing system	Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: omn – Minoan lab – Linear A
Linguist List	omn Minoan
	lab Linear A
Glottolog	mino1236  Minoan

The Minoan language is the language (or languages) of the ancient Minoan civilization of Crete written in the Cretan hieroglyphs and later in the Linear A syllabary. As the Cretan hieroglyphs are undeciphered and Linear A only partly deciphered, the Minoan language is unknown and unclassified. With the existing evidence, it is even impossible to be certain that the two scripts record the same language.

The Eteocretan language, attested in a few alphabetic inscriptions from Crete 1,000 years later, is possibly a descendant of Minoan, but is also unclassified.