This introduction to Linear A (LinA) writing is uncommon in all aspects, exactly that makes this new approach to decipherment work. No free rein to esoteric interpretation of symbols, no translation from an exotic language only the decipherer speaks, the whole corpus can be read through with just a handful of simple reading rules – in today’s Magyar. I know how ridiculously this sounds, but let me explain: Magyar is an agglutinative, root-based language, in which hundreds or even thousands of words are derived from the same root-word. If one changes a consonant in the consonantal frame of the root-word, one has to make that same change simultaneously in the whole word-family based on that root-word, or the word-family splits up. As it is impossible to change simultaneously thousands of words, a language is either agglutinative, based on never changing root-words or else. Minoan belonged to this never changing root-based agglutinative languages and lived on in Carian, Lydian, Lucian, Thracian, … to Hungarian languages, which should be called by a common name as Scythian. 

LinA (similarly to Minoan hieroglyphic writing) is a phonetic writing system, based on rebus and acrophonic principles in letters, and using defective notation of vowels as the method of writing. Wouldn’t it be highly illogical and ridiculous to represent a “logogram/ideogram” with the depiction of an entirely different commodity, and derive its name by the rebus principle from this other commodity? But this is the case: A commonly used “logogram” is GRA, short for grain, not for the word, but for the commodity itself, the experts are saying. By looking up some of the tablets with this sign on, one would realise that the sign depicts a simply drawn RoSe (RóZSa, in Minoan/Magyar) with its stem and petals, and a horizontal line cutting of the last sound (a returning technique in LinA): RóZSa > RoZS, is the Minoan/Magyar word for rye, indeed a grain.