Chapter 6 begins Part II, “Syllabotactic Analyses of the Aegean Scripts,” which contains Chapters 6 to 11. This chapter introduces the concept of “syllabotactic analysis,” a new linguistics-based method of determining whether any two undeciphered Aegean scripts encode the same language. All languages have rules dictating how syllables can combine to form words, and these rules differ from language to language. Since all the undeciphered Aegean scripts are syllabic scripts, with separate signs for each syllable in the language(s) they encode, the rules that dictate how syllables can combine to form words in the language behind the script will also dictate how signs can combine to form words in the script itself. As all the Aegean scripts are related, they share a large number of signs in common. Thus if the signs in common to two undeciphered scripts combine to form words in very similar ways in both scripts, the two scripts are highly likely to encode the same language; otherwise, they are highly likely to encode different languages. The chapter ends with brief descriptions of the analyses of this type contained in the next five chapters.