# 用 AI 破译失传语言：Linear A 与 Etruscan 的挑战

- 来源：Ars Technica：AI（RSS）
- 作者：The Conversation
- 发布时间：2026-07-29 21:23
- AIHOT 分数：29
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cms64ef3s18icrobk66cmddho
- 原文链接：https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/what-happens-when-you-put-ai-to-work-deciphering-lost-languages

## AI 摘要

失传语言破译通常依赖双语对照文本（如罗塞塔石碑）或已知亲属语言，但米诺斯文明的 Linear A 作为“语言孤立体”两者皆无，百年来对语言学家构成重大挑战。意大利的伊特鲁里亚语情况稍好，已从短墓志铭中收集部分词汇，但其语法与深层含义仍未被破解。

## 正文

Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that’s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A, the writing system of the Bronze Age Minoan civilisation on the Greek island of Crete, has neither.

Linear A is described as a “language isolate” because it has no confirmed link to any known language, living or dead. As such, it has posed a significant challenge for linguists over the past century.

Etruscan, a language of Italy that was used before the rise of the Roman Empire, has fared only slightly better. A partial vocabulary has been collected from short funerary inscriptions, but its grammar and deeper meaning still elude linguists.