Minoan and Finno-Ugric Regular Sound Changes Discovered by Data Mining

Cognate words within language families derive from common protowords and are transformed by regular sound changes. The demonstration of regular sound changes between pairs of languages is a major tool in proving that they belong to the same language family. This paper applies association rule data mining to identify regular sound changes between Finno-Ugric languages and Pre-Greek, which Robert Beekes identified to be a single language, which can be called the Minoan language.