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It's the other way round. Per Wikipedia, In the 1950s, Linear B was largely deciphered and found to encode an early form of Greek. Although the two systems share many symbols, this did not lead to a subsequent decipherment of Linear A. Using the values associated with Linear B in Linear A mainly produces unintelligible words.
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The creator of the manuscript couldn't have had that expertise. It's more likely to be either a personal conlang or weird mish mash of real languages in personal script.
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What are your thoughts about the Phaistos disc? Real, or exceptionally weird?
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Which brings us to another use of the Lignuistics skill: shedding one's phonetic biases when hearing foreign words. |
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It could be Area Knowledge (Nordic Countries), or something else other than Linguistics skill. |
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