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	Eteocretan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was written in Linear A, a syllabary used extensively up to 1420 BCE, primarily for the purposes of religious inscriptions and administrative records in the Minoan civilization.
		Part of the inscription (lines 3 to 5) is written in Greek, probably the Doric dialect.
		The Eteocretan text is much shorter suggesting that it is merely a summary of the Greek text:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eteocretan (693 words)

	Yoga Meditation Prayer Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Though the two scripts share many of the same symbols, using the syllables associated with Linear B in Linear A writings produces words that are unrelated to any known language.
		This language has been dubbed Minoan or Eteocretan, and corresponds to a period in Cretan history prior to a series of invasions by Mycenean Greeks around 1450 BC.
		Usually, it is a more or less accepted viewpoint to group the 'Minoan' language of the linear A inscriptions together with Eteocretan (its likely descendant), and Eteocypriot, into the group of Aegean languages, but without any precise knowledge about the underlying languages, their relationships, or grammatical structure.
	www.yogameditationprayer.sprinko.com /index.php?title=Linear_A (591 words)

	Eteocretan
		Ancient testimony suggests that the language is a survival of that of the Eteocretans, i.e.
		The Eteocretans, on the other hand, were traditionally associated with Prasos or, as it was more commonly known, Praisos in the eastern part of Crete.
		As at least half the known inscriptions are from Praisos, it seems reasonable to assume that the language is, indeed, that of the Eteocretans.
	www.carolandray.plus.com /Eteocretan/Eteocretan.html (1132 words)

	Maybes
		One letter in the small Eteocretan corpus has been argued by Duhoux to be a reflex of Phoenecian tsade rather than mu
		Eteocretan is undeciphered, and the letter is unique and thus idiosyncratic; at any rate, if Duhoux's hypothesis is correct, the letter should be conflated with san, the Greek reflex of tsade.
		On the other hand, it is not clear there is any tradition of using it in Modern typography, and the corpus it applies to is small.
	www.tlg.uci.edu /~opoudjis/unicode/maybes.html (944 words)

	Lemnian language
		Debate continues on concerning the relationship of Eteocypriot, Eteocretan and Minoan to this family.
		The Amathus bilingual written in Eteocretan shows important structural similarities bearing what appears to be a genitive in -O-SE (Etruscan <-as> and Lemnian <-š>) as well as a 3ps animate pronoun A-NA (Etruscan 'he, she').
		Eteocretan likewise shows grammatical similarities and vocabulary terms but again the number of texts are meager.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/LemnianLanguage.html (2079 words)

	CANE - The Classical Association of New England
		At Praesos, one of the two Eteocretan communities which according to Herodotus (vii, 170) refused to join the fatal crusade to Sicily and so survived the general disaster, three inscriptions have been found in Greek characters but in an unknown language.
		The presumption is that these inscriptions, dating from the sixth to fourth centuries B. C., are in the Eteocretan tongue which Praesos preserves but writes in the new Greek alphabet.
		The endings and in a few cases the roots prove this to be an Aryan language; and possibly other finds may afford data for further progress in reading Eteocretan in a Greek dress.
	www.caneweb.org /sevensages/manatt.asp (1626 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sometimes the Minoan language is referred to as Eteocretan, but this presents confusion between the language written in Linear A scripts and the language written in a Euboean-derived alphabet only after the Greek Dark Ages.
		While Eteocretan language is suspected to be a descendant of Minoan, there is no substantial evidence for this.
		Unless Eteocretan truly is its descendant, it is perhaps during the Greek Dark Ages, a time of economic and socio-political collapse, that the Minoan language became extinct.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Minoan_civilization (4127 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.05.17
		In one of the most stimulating articles of the volume, Whitley addresses the interesting question what is specifically 'Eteocretan' in the material remains of an 'Eteocretan' city such as Praisos.
		Nothing, except for the few Eteocretan inscriptions (texts of a preHellenic language, written in the Greek alphabet between the 6th and the 3rd cent.
		Whitley is certainly right in pointing to the uncertainty whether Eteocretan remained a spoken language among the majority of the Praisians in the period in which Eteocretan inscriptions were written.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr-cgi-dev/2000/2000-05-17.html (2011 words)

	Alphabetic Responses to Western Semitic Writing
		The Eteocretans claimed to be the first inhabitants of the island of Crete.
		Actually, they could well be the descendants of some Minoans of the second millennium BC - anyway, they spoke a language which is not Greek, but which is still not satisfactorily identified nor interpreted.
		The Eteocretans used the Greek alphabet to write their texts (seventh to third / second centuries BC).
	www.csad.ox.ac.uk /LSAG/Conference2004/Jconf.04.html (1214 words)

	Craig Welch: Phaistos disk
		"In summary, the Eteocretan texts are Northwest Semitic with strong Aramaic affinities.
		There is every reason to accept the long-held view that Minoan is the parent language of Eteocretan.
		The widely distributed votive texts in Linear A are in the same Semitic language that we may safely regard as the official language of Minoan civilization." 1
	www-personal.umich.edu /~artsfx/notes2.html (1633 words)

	Minoan Civilization - Dilos Holiday World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The earlier Minoan language was still spoken alongside it by the Eteocretans ("the true Cretans"); this fact is attested by Eteocretan inscriptions discovered in East Crete, dating from the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
		Homer was aware that the inhabitants of Crete were divided into a number of tribes, and mentions the names of five of them: the Pelasgians, the Eteocretans, the Kydonians, the Achaeans and the Dorians, adding that each spoke its own language.
		The Protogeometric period that followed (1100-900 BC) unfolded alongside the Sub-Minoan, for the earlier Cretan cultural tradition continued to offer resistance in certain areas, particularly the mountain centres of the Eteocretans in central and eastern Crete (Karfi (Lassithi), Vrokastro (Merambello), Praessos and other places near Sitia), and to exercise some influence on the uncouth conquerors.
	www.dilos.com /location/13406 (2855 words)

	chronology of boys' clothing : ancient civilizations -- Minoans
		Some of them were the Pelasgians, the Eteocretans, the Kydonians, the Achaeans and the Dorians.
		The Minoan language was still used at this time and continued to be used for some time.
		Eteocretan (a Ceatan tribe) inscriptions found in eastern Crete have been dated to the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
	histclo.com /chron/ancient/ac-min.html (1763 words)

	Minoan Language
		Though this early Greek of the Aecheans became the official language, the earlier Minoan language continued to be spoken into the 5th century BCE by the Eteocretans ("the true Cretans").
		We know this because Eteocretan inscriptions dating from this time were discovered in East Crete, where Homer acknolwedged them.
		Though we don't know the spoken (or really, the written) language of the Minoans, they left a record of themselves in their rich and prolific art.
	www.goddessmystic.com /PathActivities/MatricentricCultures/crete-language.shtml (608 words)

	Athena - Crystalinks
		The incest motif appears yet again, in the form of a consummated marriage between her and her teacher.
		Athena has no Greek etymology, and probably was already a goddess in the Aegean before the coming of the Greeks, although her name is not attested in Eteocretan.
		She has been compared to Anatolian mother goddesses like Cybele, her name possibly of Lydian origin (G. Neumann, Kadmos 6, 1967), and her byname Pallas has been compared to Hittite palahh, a divine raiment.
	www.crystalinks.com /athena.html (1792 words)

	Untitled
		The School has a long history of involvement in Crete, beginning with the formation of the Cretan Exploration Fund in 1899, a joint venture between Arthur Evans and the then director D. Hogarth.
		In 1901 and 1902 the School excavated at the east Cretan site of Presós, investigating both Minoan and later remains, and discovering among other things inscriptions in an non-greek language called 'Eteocretan' - possibly a descendent in historical times of the unknown Minoan language.
		The director of excavations (and the School) was R. Carr Bosanquet; he later excavated at Palékastro, another east Cretan site, this time uncovering the remains of a whole Minoan town, as well as a nearby 'peak sanctuary', a hill-top site found to have thousands of votive offerings.
	www.bsa.gla.ac.uk /history/crete.htm (392 words)

	Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe: Chapter XI. Life in the Little Towns
		Sitia is the ancient country of Eteocretans, who were believed by the Greeks to be the earliest settlers on the island.
		a strategic "key" of a trade route; the highway which it dominates is the easiest approach to the Eteocretan Highlands; the natural harbour was the "nursery" of a sea trade, and the valley provided a surplus of food to promote it.
		These included articles with four C spiral terminations and balls of clay, which may have been charms against the "evil eye" like the "luck balls" which were manufactured and sold in these islands in comparatively recent times.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/moc/moc16.htm (8161 words)

	Crete - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The script also recurs on walls in the shape of graffiti, and on vases, sometimes ink-written; and from the number of seals originally attached to perishable documents it is probable that parchment or some similar material was also used.
		In the extreme east and west of the island the aboriginal Eteocretan" element, however, as represented respectively by the Praesians or Cydonians, still held its own, and inscriptions written in Greek characters show that the old language survived to the centuries immediately preceding the Christian era.
		The mainland invasions which produced these great ethnic changes in Crete are marked archaeologically by signs of widespread destruction and by a considerable break in The dark the continuity of the insular civilization.
	www.1911ency.org /Crete (14581 words)

	Other Eteocretan inscriptions
		This "biscript" inscription, which is surely a modern fake, is given here for the sake of completeness, as it has figured in several publications about Eteocretan.
		None of the five (or four or six) words clearly shown here have any obvious parallels with the other Eteocretan inscription.
		Indeed, some translators, in their enthusiasm to produce a "translation", have taken liberties with the word divisions in the 3rd line.
	www.carolandray.plus.com /Eteocretan/Epioi.html (2592 words)

	Other Non-Attic Characters
		In fact, the last fifty years of research has left nothing of the zigzag.
		The latest and fullest treatment of Eteocretan is Duhoux (1982).
		I wouldn't know Eteocretan if it hit me (though my ancestors are from Eteocretan country), but even I can tell that Jeffery's transcription does look like too many consonants in a row for the character to be truly a consonant—and an aspirate at that.
	www.tlg.uci.edu /~opoudjis/unicode/other_nonattic.html (2452 words)

	NEH
		Homer's "Crete of the one hundred cities" (Iliad 2.649) is as much a remembrance of Bronze Age palatial sites as it is a likely reference to Iron Age urbanization spurred by dynamic inter-Mediterranean cultural contacts in the first half of the first millennium B.C. (cf.
		The archaeological evidence for the confluence and conflict of indigenous and foreign cultures—Minoan, Mycenaean and Dorian Greek, and Phoenician (or in the Homeric tradition, Achaian, Eteocretan, Kydonian, Pelasgian, and Dorian)—sets the stage for the analysis of the social and economic processes involved in the development of a regional cultural identity.
		The island was a physical stepping stone between the Aegean and the Mediterranean, and is at the center of discussion of inter-Mediterranean exchange, and cultural and economic cross-currents (cf.
	www.unc.edu /~dchaggis/NEH.html (5528 words)

	----- Lasithi Plateau ----- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In recent years different scholars have raised objections or denied outright that the Cave of Psychro, in spite of its obvious importance as a cult cave in the Minoan and later periods, can in fact be identified with the Diktaian Cave.
		The main objection is that according to Hellenistic tradition the mountain of Dikte was situated east of the Ierapetra Isthmus, but perhaps the Eteocretan refugees carried their cult of the Diktaian Zeus with them to Eastern Crete.
		Go up from the village of Psichro either walking along a steep path or hire a donkey, always available, on site.
	www.dilos.com /region/crete/las_plt.html (1427 words)

	Goddess Alive!
		We came at last to a dusty limestone track, which would take us the final two kilometres to the three-hilltop settlement and sacred C3rd BCE temple of Presos that we were seeking.
		This is a fascinating site, for it appears that after the disasters that beset the Minoan people (eruption of Thera and invasion of the Myceneans) the remnants of that once-great civilisation retreated into this mountain fastness, where they constructed this first Eteocretan city.
		Here they preserved their language and culture into the Greek period, and have been considered as the first or original Cretans.
	www.goddessalive.co.uk /issue6/page2.html (1480 words)

	The Eteocretan settlement of Karfi, above the Lassithi Plateau - Crete TOURnet
		The Eteocretan settlement of Karfi, above the Lassithi Plateau - Crete TOURnet
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		The Eteocretan settlement of Karfi, above the Lassithi Plateau
	www.crete.tournet.gr /The_Eteocretan_settlement_of_Karfi__above_the_Lassithi_Plateau-im-1639052-en.jsp (50 words)

	'Linear A' and 'Eteocretan' inscriptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Groupsrv.com Topic Name : 'Linear A' and 'Eteocretan' inscriptions
		Professor Duhoux who has investigated LA and eteocretan (cretan
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	www.groupsrv.com /science/ntopic119347.html (2156 words)

	ANISTORITON Journal of History, Archaeology, ArtHistory: In Situ
		If we consider "AJa/WaJa" above as a pair of a separate/suffixed pronoun, we can search in the LinA corpus for other personal pronouns; i.e.
		Perhaps hither also Eteocretan PRA(Praisos) 3; 9 mamde-dika-rk.
		The Libation Formula contains a smaller group of incidences, where the first word differs from ATaI*301WaJa, namely:
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/p051.htm (2523 words)

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