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Linear B flashcards

Start with the five vowels, then learn the grid one row at a time. Say the answer to yourself, flip the card and rate how well you knew it; each card comes back just before you would forget it.

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❓ How the flashcards work
  1. Pick a deck below. The vowels is the place to start; then take the rows in any order (the d, k, n, p and t rows hold many common words).
  2. Say the answer before you flip. Trying to remember, even when you can’t, is what makes a sign stick.
  3. Grade each card. Again brings it back in a minute; Hard, Good and Easy send it further out (each button shows when you’ll see it next).
  4. Which side first: Sign first shows the sign and asks for its value; Value first asks you to recall the sign; Both makes two cards of each.
  5. Values are written the way scholars transliterate them: ka, pu2. Remember that r also stands for l, and p for b and ph.
  6. Keys: Space or Enter flips; 1–4 grade (Again, Hard, Good, Easy); S skips.

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Want the spelling rules and real tablets too? The course Linear A and Linear B on the Ancient Scripts Ladder teaches each sign in context, with practice.

Signs and readings: sign numbers follow Emmett L. Bennett Jr.’s standard list and the Unicode names; sound values, special signs and transliteration follow the conventions in Wikipedia’s articles Linear B, Linear A and Mycenaean Greek, which report the standard reference works (Ventris and Chadwick’s Documents in Mycenaean Greek and Chadwick’s The Decipherment of Linear B). The tripod tablet’s text follows Wikipedia’s PY Ta 641. Linear A values are the conventional Linear B values; they are working guesses, not known sounds.

The fonts: TRB Linear B and TRB Linear A, drawn sign by sign for Teddy Rook Book from the standard sign forms and released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. They sit at the Unicode code points (Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers and Linear A), so text you copy stays real Unicode.

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