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Cypriot syllabary

Index Cypriot syllabary

The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from about the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE, when it was replaced by the Greek alphabet. [1]

28 relations: Amathus, Arcadocypriot Greek, Athena, Cuneiform script, Cypro-Minoan syllabary, Cyprus, Dental consonant, Diphthong, Enkomi, Eteocypriot language, Evagoras I, George Smith (Assyriologist), Greek alphabet, Greek language, Idalion Tablet, Idalium, Iron Age, Linear A, Linear B, Liquid consonant, Manner of articulation, Nasal consonant, Paphos, Pre-Greek substrate, Salamis, Cyprus, Samuel Birch, Syllabary, Unicode.

Amathus

Amathus or Amathous (Ἀμαθοῦς) was an ancient city and one of the ancient royal cities of Cyprus until about 300 BC.

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Arcadocypriot Greek

Arcadocypriot, or southern Achaean, was an ancient Greek dialect spoken in Arcadia in the central Peloponnese and in Cyprus.

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Athena

Athena; Attic Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnā, or Ἀθηναία, Athēnaia; Epic: Ἀθηναίη, Athēnaiē; Doric: Ἀθάνα, Athānā or Athene,; Ionic: Ἀθήνη, Athēnē often given the epithet Pallas,; Παλλὰς is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare, who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Cuneiform script

Cuneiform script, one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians.

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Cypro-Minoan syllabary

The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM) is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus during the late Bronze Age (ca. 1550–1050 BC).

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Cyprus

Cyprus (Κύπρος; Kıbrıs), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean.

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Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,,, and in some languages.

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Diphthong

A diphthong (or; from Greek: δίφθογγος, diphthongos, literally "two sounds" or "two tones"), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.

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Enkomi

Enkomi (Έγκωμη; Tuzla) is a village near Famagusta in Cyprus.

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Eteocypriot language

Eteocypriot was a pre-Indo-European language spoken in Iron Age Cyprus.

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Evagoras I

Evagoras or Euagoras (Ancient Greek: Εὐαγόρας) was the king of Salamis (411–374 BC) in Cyprus, known especially from the work of Isocrates, who presents him as a model ruler.

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George Smith (Assyriologist)

George Smith (Chelsea, London 26 March 184019 August 1876), was a pioneering English Assyriologist who first discovered and translated the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest-known written works of literature.

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Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Idalion Tablet

The Idalion Tablet is a 5th-century BCE bronze tablet from Idalium (Ιδάλιον), Cyprus.

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Idalium

Idalion or Idalium (Ιδάλιον, Idalion) was an ancient city in Cyprus, in modern Dali, Nicosia District.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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Linear A

Linear A is one of two currently undeciphered writing systems used in ancient Greece (Cretan hieroglyphic is the other).

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Linear B

Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek.

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Liquid consonant

In phonetics, liquids or liquid consonants are a class of consonants consisting of lateral consonants like 'l' together with rhotics like 'r'.

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Manner of articulation

In articulatory phonetics, the manner of articulation is the configuration and interaction of the articulators (speech organs such as the tongue, lips, and palate) when making a speech sound.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive, nasal stop in contrast with a nasal fricative, or nasal continuant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Paphos

Paphos (Πάφος; Baf) is a coastal city in the southwest of Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District.

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Pre-Greek substrate

The Pre-Greek substrate (or Pre-Greek substratum) consists of the unknown language or languages spoken in prehistoric ancient Greece before the settlement of Proto-Hellenic speakers in the area.

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Salamis, Cyprus

Salamis (Σαλαμίς) is an ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km north of modern Famagusta.

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Samuel Birch

Samuel Birch (3 November 1813 – 27 December 1885) was a British Egyptologist and antiquary.

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Syllabary

A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.

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Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

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Cprt (script), Cypriot (script), Cypriot Syllabary, Cypriot script, Cypriot syllabic script, Cypriote Syllabary, Cypriote syllabary, ISO 15924:Cprt, 𐠀, 𐠁, 𐠂, 𐠃, 𐠄, 𐠅, 𐠈, 𐠊, 𐠋, 𐠌, 𐠍, 𐠎, 𐠏, 𐠐, 𐠑, 𐠒, 𐠓, 𐠔, 𐠕, 𐠖, 𐠗, 𐠘, 𐠙, 𐠚, 𐠛, 𐠜, 𐠝, 𐠞, 𐠟, 𐠠, 𐠡, 𐠢, 𐠣, 𐠤, 𐠥, 𐠦, 𐠧, 𐠨, 𐠩, 𐠪, 𐠫, 𐠬, 𐠭, 𐠮, 𐠯, 𐠰, 𐠱, 𐠲, 𐠳, 𐠴, 𐠵, 𐠷, 𐠸, 𐠼, 𐠿.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypriot_syllabary

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