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	Birthplace Of Greek Alphabet Identified
		Woodard determined that certain characteristic features of the ancient Cypriot script -- particularly its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology -- were transferred to the new alphabetic system.
		Under the strategy, when writing a sequence of two consonants, if the first consonant is equal to or higher than the second, the first consonant is written; otherwise it is not.
		These symbols in the Cypriot Syllabary, representing the sounds "ksa" and "kse" in the Cypriot dialect, were forerunners of the letter "x."
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1997-12/UoSC-BOGA-151297.php (1142 words)

	\| Cypriot \| Typophile
		The Cypriot syllabary was used in Cyprus from the eleventh century BCE to around the end of the third century BCE.
		In origin the Cypriot syllabary is clearly related to Linear A and Linear B, though not especially closely; the immediate ancestor is probably the poorly known Cypro-Minoan script of the Late Bronze Age.
		The Cypriot syllabary has been included in the Unicode standard since version 4.0, and is located with other historic scripts in Plane 1.
	typophile.com /wiki/cypriot (427 words)

	98.4.04
		It is a fact that such Cypriot signs did exist (although there is considerable debate over the value of Cypriot "z") and that they were the only cluster signs in Cypriot; in the first section of this book W presents some interesting ideas about how these signs came into being.
		In any case, this similarity between Cypriot and the alphabet is the strongest argument in favour of W's hypothesis of a Cypriot origin of the alphabet.
		In the end, both as regards the Cypriot roots of the alphabet and as regards the spelling rules of the syllabaries, I myself cannot decide whether or not W is right, but he certainly has made a good case, and one that future scholars will have to take seriously.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/BMCR-L/Mirror/1998/98.4.04.html (1986 words)

	Cypriot syllabary
		The Cypriot syllabary is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from ca.
		It is 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 some bilingual (Greek and Eteocypriot) inscriptions were found in Amathus.
	www.algebra.com /algebra/about/history/Cypriot-syllabary.wikipedia (116 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Cypriot
		While the earliest examples dating from as early as 1500 BCE cannot be read, comparisons clearly show that the Cypriot syllabary seemed to have derived from Linear A, and therefore is like a sibling to Linear B.
		The Cypriot script continued to serve mostly for short dedicatory and funerary texts, but there are instances of longer, historical texts during the 5th century BCE.
		In the case of syllable-initial consonant clusters, all consonants except the one nearest to the vowel are represented with CV signs whose vowels agree with the vowel of syllable.
	www.ancientscripts.com /cypriot.html (0 words)

	BOCCF - Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the 12th century B.C., as the Bronze Age civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean were coming to an end, the island of Cyprus underwent major ethnic and cultural transformations.
		Some of the inscriptions of the Cypriot cities were in the Phoenician script (i.e.
		This was ill-suited to render the sounds of the Greek language and many of the abbreviated royal names are difficult or impossible to identify.
	www.boccf.org /main/default.aspx?tabID=46&itemID=113&mid=365 (576 words)

	Centre of Thesaurus of Cypriot Greek (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ancient Cypriots used the Cypriot dialect, which belonged to the Arcado-Cypriot subdivision of the ancient Greek language and which belonged itself to the Achaic group.
		The ancient Cypriot dialect survived thanks to a corpus of inscriptions written in the Cypriot syllabary from the period between the 7th and the 3rd century B.C. Later the Alexandrine Koine spread like a strong wind over the Cypriot and the other ancient Greek dialects leaving no sign of them surviving that period.
		Cypriots like other Greeks also used the Koine in written and official speech, which was taught by common education.
	www.thisavros.com /main/default.aspx?mid=22&TabID=10&ItemID=3 (350 words)

	Inuktitut language, syllabary and pronunciation
		The Inuktitut syllabary was adapted from the Cree syllabary in the late 19th century by John Horden and E. Watkins, missionaries from England.
		Today the Inuktitut syllabary, which is known as titirausiq nutaaq (ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖅ ᓄᑕᐊᖅ) or qaniujaaqpait (ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ), is used mainly in Canada, especially in the territory of Nunavut (ᓄᓇᕗᑦ), the population of which is 85% Inuit, and in Nunavik (ᓄᓇᕕᒃ), Quebec.
		The Inuktitut syllabary consists of a small number of basis signs, the vowel sound attached to each one depends on their orientation.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/inuktitut.htm (0 words)

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		It seems that the Cypriots did not adopt the alphabet used in the other Greek dialects since the 8th century B.C., because the syllabary was felt to be a distinguishing feature of Cypriot identity.
		The gradual abandonment of the Cypriot syllabary and the adoption of the eastern Ionic alphabet was the consequence of the closer ties between Cyprus and the rest of the Greek-speaking world.
		The first Cypriot king to do so was Evagoras I of Salamis, who followed a subsequent Greek-oriented policy and was regarded by the Athenian historian Isocrates as a person who could lead a pan-Hellenic campaign against the Persians.
	www.interklasa.pl /portal/dokumenty/ue033/the_cypriot.htm (328 words)

	'X' Marks the Spot
		Woodard determined that certain characteristic features of the ancient Cypriot script - particularly its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology - were transferred to the new alphabetic system.
		These symbols in the Cypriot Syllabary, representing the sounds "ksa" and "kse" in the Cypriot dialect, were forerunners of the letter "x."
		After making the connection to the Cypriot script through the letter "x," Woodard worked on other connections, such as the fact that the Greeks had incorporated vowel characters into the Phoenician script, which only had consonant symbols.
	www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/3208.html (1325 words)

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		It is directly descended from Mycenaean Greek, being spoken in areas where the Mycenaean population retreated from the Dorian invasion.
		In Cyprus, it was written using the Cypriot syllabary.
		It was written in the Cypriot syllabary, a syllabic script derived from Linear A which was used in Cyprus up to the 4th century BCE.
	www.worldhistory.com /search.php?ix=wiki4&rf=0,PN2,P3,PN4,P6&page=1&type=article&hpp=&lfs=1&q=Cypriot-syllabary (524 words)

	Cypriot Syllabary - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
		The Cypriot Syllabary range was introduced with version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard and is located in Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane), which requires the enabling of surrogates in Windows 2000; these characters cannot easily be displayed in earlier versions of Windows.
		Cypriot syllabic writing (also known as Cypro-Minoan) appeared in Cyprus around 700 B.C., and for a few hundred years it was used for writing Greek and some local languages.
		The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
	www.alanwood.net /unicode/cypriot_syllabary.html (0 words)

	Hittite Rule in Cyprus
		During the period between 1,500-1050 B.C. the rival Hittite and Egyptian empires exercised authority over the rulers of the Cypriot cities.
		Cypriot craftsmen were distinguished for fine jewelry, ivory-carving, and bronze figures.
		While the earliest examples, which date from as early as 1500 BC, can't be read, comparisons clearly show that the Cypriot syllabary seemed to have derived from Linear A, and so sort of like a sibling to Linear B.
	www.cypnet.co.uk /ncyprus/history/05.htm (0 words)

	Linear B Syllabary Unicode Fonts
		They are the oldest recorded form of Greek and were found on the island of Crete and the nearby mainland.
		Linear B is split into three Unicode blocks: Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, and Aegean Numbers.
		The Unicode implementation of Linear B Syllabary is described in chapter 14 (Archaic Scripts) of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.
	www.wazu.jp /gallery/Fonts_LinearBSyllabary.html (0 words)

	Astral Planes
		Other ancient scripts that share characters with archaic Greek, such as the Iberian script of Ancient Spain and the Numidian script of Ancient North Africa, are thought to have been derived directly from Phoenecian.
		Frequently enough the Greek forms underlying the CV-syllabaries (not a good fit for Greek) are then reconstructed and published in the normal Greek script, with requisite additions (yot, digamma, qʷ, and so forth)—particularly if the text is cited in linguistic discussion of Greek, where it needs to blend in with Classical examples.
		I am currently uncertain of whether it can be conflated with the (Greek) Cypriot syllabary or not.
	www.tlg.uci.edu /~opoudjis/unicode/unicode_astral.html (2708 words)

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		It predated the Greek alphabet by several centuries: it seems to have died out with the fall of Mycenaean civilization; the intervening period, in which there is no evidence of written language, is known as the Greek Dark Ages.
		The script appears to be related to Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Minoan language, and the later Cypriot syllabary; derivation from another writing system is held to be the reason for its poor compliance with the phonemic principle.
		The Myceneans who used the syllabary had to work around this, until several hundred years later, when the first Greek alphabet was developed.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Linear_B (1408 words)

	syllabary - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		The Aegean Syllabary 114 8...hieroglyphs, Old Persian cuneiform, the Cypriot syllabary, and the Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet...compromise between an alphabet and a syllabary, but Grotefend was close enough to the...
		This interpretation...indeed the beginning of the Arapacana syllabary, as I previously claimed was "virtually...for a Gandhari Origin of the Arapacana Syllabary," JAOS 110 (1990): 255-73.
		Antonio...obvious to outside observers that the syllabary comprised three vowels and 14 consonants...final consonants".(20) (The Buginese syllabary is illustrated in Fig.
	www.questia.com /SM.qst;jsessionid=F5yLLkvnPbPRcGVc6XQmJR97p9hhGL5C11KGLqysqXvNqgjM6RGm!-1144552020!1166567014?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=syllabary (1517 words)

	MavicaNET - Cypriot Syllabary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Catalogue / Société / Sciences sociales / Sciences politiques, politologie / Théories politiques / États anciens / Chypre ancien / Cypriot Syllabary
		Relation to Linear A and B, as well as to Cypro-Minoan syllabary.
		Comparison with Linear A and B and with Cypriot proper.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/fra/24316.html (134 words)

	Historical Alphabets
		In reality this system was really a minimalistic syllabary much like Old Persian.
		Notice that this is a very skeletal syllabary, in that sounds like pu is written with the signs pa and u.
		In fact, consonants are written with the signs of the form C-a, where C is consonant that we want to represent.
	www.seansgallery.com /pages/h_alphabets.htm (2019 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Greek language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Greek diaspora (Greek:) is a term used to refer to the communities of Greek people living outside of the traditional Greek homelands of modern Greece,and Cyprus.
		Greek has been written in the Greek alphabet (the first to introduce vowels) since the 9th century BC in Greece (before that in Linear B), and the 4th century BC in Cyprus (before that in Cypriot syllabary).
		Greek literature has a continuous history of nearly three thousand years.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Greek_language/External_links (1223 words)

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		At this late date its use was % principally for recording % inscriptions on votive offerings and public works, and in many cases % the Cypriot script was accompanied by a Greek alphabetic version of % the same text.
		Perhaps surprisingly, Cypriot has no other relationship % to the Greek alphabet except that they can both be used to write the % same language.
		There is, however, a relationship between the Cypriot syllabary % and the earlier Linear~B syllabary, which was principally used in Crete, as % some of the signs are the same.
	gatekeeper.dec.com /pub/text/TeX/fonts/archaic/cypriot/cypriot.dtx (3762 words)

	Cypriot syllabary
		The Cypriot syllabary is thought to have developed from the Linear A though its exact origins are not known.
		The Cypriot dialect of Greek, and also some other languages which have yet to be deciphered.
		ALPHABETUM is a Unicode font specifically designed for ancient languages that includes Cypriot, and many other ancient scripts
	www.omniglot.com /writing/cypriot.htm (0 words)

	CYPRIOT SYLLABARY Articles The Cypriot syllabary is a syllabic
		CYPRIOT SYLLABARY Articles The Cypriot syllabary is a syllabic
		Most texts using the script are in the Arcadocypriot dialect, but some bilingual (Eteocypriot) inscriptions were found in Amathus.
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	www.amazines.com /Cypriot_syllabary_related.html (352 words)

	cypriot
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		The Cypriot syllabary or Cypro-Minoan writing is thought to have...
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	INADAMSWORLD.COM
		Whereas the Semitic syllabary was exclusively consonantal, the Hellenic script evolved into a phonetic writing with the alteration of five Phoenician consonants into vowels.
		In addition to that, four signs were added-phi, psi, chi, and omega-to cover all the range of sounds in the Hellenic language.7 These alterations and additions formed the first alphabet, which managed to create a visual representation of all the phonetic elements of speech.
		In addition to this, it is important to note that in the Hellenic Cypriot syllabary there were signs for the designation of vowels, indicating how the idea of an exclusively phonetic script could have been achieved.
	www.inadamsworld.com /posts_31.php (2629 words)

	Arcadocypriot Information
		It is directly descended from Mycenaean Greek, being spoken in areas where the Mycenaean population retreated from the Dorian invasion.
		In Cyprus, it was written using the Cypriot syllabary.
		Tsan was a letter only in use in Arcadia, up to ca.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Arcadocypriot (83 words)

	TITLE OF PAPER: Athienou Archaeological Project, 1999: the tenth season of investigations at Athienou-Malloura, Cyprus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rather than being a peribolos wall from the early phases of the sanctuary it may be part of a roofed structure.
		This year's array of artifacts comprises terra-cotta figurines, ceramic vessels and lamps, limestone utensils (e.g., vessel lids and ash shovels), a cache of color worked pebbles, several inscriptions and pot marks in Cypriot syllabary, six coins, and limestone sculpture.
		Significant progress towards final publication was made through analysis of osteological and ceramic data from the Hellenistic-Roman cemetery at the northern periphery of the site.
	www.davidson.edu /academic/classics/Toumazou/AAP/articles/1999.htm (424 words)

	gnist.no (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maurice Pope examines the intellectual developments that lead to their outstanding achievements, and describes the process of decipherment, providing quotations from their original publications and many examples of their drawings, tables and diagrams.
		Among the scripts the author analyses are the Palmyra script, Sassanid Persian, Egyptian hieroglyphic, Persian cuniform, Akkadian cuneiform, the Cypriot syllabary, Hittitte hieroglyphic, the Ugaritic alphabet and Mycenaean Linear B. Table of contents
		Part 3 Agean and Anatolian writing: the Cypriot syllabary; Hittitte hieroglyphic; Evans and the Aegean scripts; Kober, Ventris and Linear B. Conclusion - the history of writing.
	www.gnist.no /vare.php?ean=9780500281055 (240 words)

	Reference topics for greek symbols - Search.com
		The Greek alphabet originated as a modification of the Phoenician alphabet and in turn gave rise to the Gothic, Glagolitic, Cyrillic, Coptic, and possibly the Armenian alphabets, as well as the Latin alphabet, as documented in History of the alphabet.
		The Greek alphabet is unrelated to Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary, earlier writing systems for
		The Greek alphabet is an alphabet that has been used to write the Greek language since about the 9th century BC.
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