Linea Ega

Linea Ega 
Language family	unknown
Era	1400~1100BC
Writing system	Linea Ega
Official status
Speaker
Technical information

Linea Ega (Laevanaak:  /lɪnɛa ʔɛga/ lit. script a) or also Linear A is an undeciphered language or writing system found in the east of Enkavak.

Name

The name 'Linea Ega' comes from the Laevanaak word for script '' and the name of the first letter of the Laenavaak Alphabet. The common German word derived from this is 'Linearschrift A', which doubles the 'script' part. In English this is most commonly shortened to just 'Linear A'.

It has been thought that 'A' in the german and english versions replacing 'Ega' is due to the letter being the first one in their respective alphabets, but another common theory is that the name of the latin letter 'A' comes from Laevanaak 'Ega' and the english pronunciation is just from the ɣ > j shift.

Corpus

The current corpus of Linea Ega consists of only a few archaeological findings, which have just recently been digitalized. Further research and archaeological and/or paleoanthropological operations are planned.

Tablets

Most of the more useful findings in the matter of deciphering the language are tablets of - most likely - full sentences, since these reveal the connections and associations of different symbols or words.

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  Linea Ega Tablet
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  Linea Ega Tablet

Roundels

Rather common findings are roundels, which come in many different sizes, shapes, materials and use cases. Roundels don't offer as many informations, since they contain only one or a few different symbols most of the time.

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  Linea Ega Roundel
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  Linea Ega Roundel

Shards

Shards a slightly more common than Roundels, but usually contain a few more symbols. It appears that writing on unrelated shards had been a common practice back in those times. It can be assumed that there were more shards than have been found, since they are theorized to be temporary writing materials and keeping them around would have been of no use.

Others

There have been other materials found to contain writings in Linea Ega. Among others these were jewelry, cups, vases or graffiti.

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  Linea Ega Jewelry