Cypriot syllabary
Syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary (also Classical Cypriot 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. It has been suggested that the script remained in use as late as the 1st century BC.[1] A pioneer of that change was King Evagoras of Salamis. It is thought to be descended from the Cypro-Minoan syllabary, in turn, a variant or derivative of Linear A. Most texts using the script are in the Arcadocypriot dialect of Greek, but also one bilingual (Greek and Eteocypriot) inscription was found in Amathus.
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Cypriot | |
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Script type | Syllabary
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Time period | 11th–4th centuries BCE |
Direction | Right-to-left script |
Languages | Arcadocypriot Greek, Eteocypriot |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Linear A
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ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Cprt (403), Cypriot syllabary |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Cypriot |
U+10800–U+1083F | |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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