For 10 points, name this language used mostly for recordkeeping, deciphered by John Chadwick and Michael Ventris, and comprising a proto-Greek system used on Crete.
It uses both a syllabary and many logograms, including animal signs which indicate the sex of the animal with horizontal lines. Because only syllables ending in vowels exist in this system, translators found it necessary to remove vowels in words known to represent place names. The assignment of the resultant sound values to other words proved to be the key to proving it the earliest recorded ancestor of modern European languages. For 10 points, name this language used mostly for recordkeeping, deciphered by John Chadwick and Michael Ventris, and comprising a proto-Greek system used on Crete.
It uses both a syllabary and many logograms, including animal signs which indicate the sex of the animal with horizontal lines.
{Linear B}