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by petjuh 42 days ago
Ok, but Hurro-Urartian is an agglutinative language family that is an isolate and has nothing to do with Semitic.
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There are two relevant decipherment ideas: the new one that is the first one sufficiently "un-bad" to be taken seriously and the one by the Dutch emeritus.

The Dutch guy thinks he can recognize some names (personal and toponyms) and that seems to be his main evidence for Linear A being Hurrian/Urartian. His theory doesn't seem very convincing (and his youtube videos are incredibly booooring).