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	Eteocretan language
		The Eteocretan (i.e True Cretan) language, also called Minoan, was the non-Hellenic language of Crete, before it was invaded by Greek tribes, spoken by the Minoans until ca.
		The Eteocretans are mentioned in Homer's Odyssey and by Strabo as living on southern Crete, alongside Kydones in the west (according to Strabo also indigenous) and Greek Achaeans and Dorians in the east.
		Despite the fall of the Minoan civilization, inscriptions in Eteocretan survive dating from the 7th century BC to the 3rd century BC, typically written in the local archaic Greek alphabet and the Ionian Greek alphabet.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/EteocretanLanguage.html (237 words)

	Eteocretan language - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Eteocretan (i.e True Cretan) language, also called Minoan, was the non-Hellenic language of Crete, before it was invaded by Greek tribes, spoken by the Minoans until ca.
		The Eteocretans are mentioned in Homer's Odyssey and by Strabo as living on southern Crete, alongside Kydones in the west (according to Strabo also indigenous) and Greek Achaeans and Dorians in the east.
		Despite the fall of the Minoan civilization, inscriptions in Eteocretan survive dating from the 7th century BC to the 3rd century BC, typically written in the local archaic Greek alphabet and the Ionian Greek alphabet.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/e/t/e/Eteocretan.html (223 words)

	Eteocretan
		The language is, presumably, a survival of a language spoken on Crete before the arrival of Greek.
		Ancient testimony suggests that the language is a survival of that of the Eteocretans, i.e.
		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)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Eteocretan language
		The Minoan language is a language of Crete unrelated to Greek and spoken before the invasion of Mycenaean armies.
		The Eteocretans are mentioned in Homer's Odyssey and by Strabo as living on southern Crete, alongside Kydones in the west (according to Strabo also indigenous) and Greek Achaeans and Dorians in the east.
		Despite the fall of the Minoan civilization, inscriptions in Eteocretan survive dating from the 7th century BC to the 3rd century BC, typically written in the local archaic Greek alphabet and the Ionian Greek alphabet.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Eteocretan (660 words)

	Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
		As distinguished by its own language, the civilization endured from an unknown prehistoric time prior to the foundation of Rome until its complete assimilation to Italic Rome in the Roman Republic; numerous artifacts of Etruscan culture survived the Roman conquest.
		After generations of speculation, secure knowledge of the Etruscan language only began with the discovery of the bilingual Phoenician-Etruscan Pyrgi Tablets found at the port of Caere in 1964, and this knowledge is still incomplete.
		In an effort to resolve the contradictions, a team of geneticists from different universities in Italy and Spain undertook the first genetic studies of the ancient Etruscans, based on mitochondrial DNA from 80 bone samples taken from tombs dating from the 7th century to the 3rd century BC in Etruria.
	www.clintongoveas.com /wikipedia/?title=Etruscans (4602 words)

	Etruscans - Karr.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As distinguished by its own language, the civilization endured from an unknown prehistoric time prior to the foundation of Rome until its complete assimilation to Italic Rome in the Roman Republic; numerous artifacts of Etruscan culture survived the Roman conquest.
		The latter gave way in the seventh century to a culture that was influenced by Greek traders and Greek neighbors in Magna Graecia, the Hellenic civilization of southern Italy.
		After years of speculation, real knowledge of the Etruscan language only began as a result of the discovery of the bilingual Phoenician-Etruscan Pyrgi Tablets found at the port of Caere in 1964.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Etruscans (1070 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Eteocretan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Phoenician is a Semitic language of the Canaanite subgroup, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic.
		The Eteocretan (i.e True Cretan) language is likely descended from Minoan and largely written in a Euboean-derived script that was the norm after the Hellenic Dark Ages, although Linear scripts did continue on side-by-side for some time afterwards in the form of a few tiny religious inscriptions.
		The Eteocretan (i.e True Cretan) language, also called Minoan, was the pre-Hellenic language of Crete, spoken by the Minoans until ca.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Eteocretan (985 words)

	Etruscan language - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Languages in Iron Age Italy, 6th century BC Etruscan was a language spoken and written in the ancient region of Etruria (current Tuscany) and in parts of what are now Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna (where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls), in Italy.
		One language certain to be very closely related to Etruscan is the language once spoken on the island of Lemnos before the Athenian invasion (6th century BC), aptly named Lemnian.
		The most notable inscription in a language known to linguists as Eteocypriot is the Amathus Bilingual, so named because it bears a partially translated version of the Eteocypriot text in the ancient Attic dialect of Greek.
	www.recipeland.com:8080 /facts/Etruscan_language (2134 words)

	Eteocretan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While attempts have been made to connect it to other languages, most consider Minoan a language isolate until a linguistic affiliation can be ascertained.
		Very little is known about Eteocretan except that it may be the descendant of a language used in the Linear A tablets.
		Five inscriptions have been found that are surely Eteocretan, two in Dreros and three in Praisos in the Cretan prefecture of Lasithi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eteocretan (680 words)

	Informat.io on Eteocretan Language
		The Minoan language is a language of Crete unrelated to Greek and spoken before the invasion of Mycenaean armies.
		Very little is known about Eteocretan except that it may be the descendent of a language used in the Linear A tablets.
		Five inscriptions have been found that are surely Eteocretan, two in Dreros and three in Praisos in the Cretan prefecture of Lasithi.
	www.informat.io /?title=eteocretan-language (667 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Minoan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		An old name for the Mycenean language before it was deciphered and discovered to be a form of Greek.
		The Minoan language is a non-Hellenic language of Crete that was spoken before the invasion of Mycenaean armies.
		Map of Bronze Age Greece as described in Homers Iliad Mycenaean is the most ancient known form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th to 11th centuries BC, before the Dorian invasion.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Minoan (371 words)

	Etruscan civilization - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As distinguished by its own language, the civilization endured from an unknown prehistoric time prior to the foundation of Rome until its complete assimilation to Italic Rome in the Roman Republic.
		The latter gave way in the 7th century to an increasingly orientalizing culture that was influenced by Greek traders and Greek neighbors in Magna Graecia, the Hellenic civilization of southern Italy.
		In ordinary language, comparison of mitochondrial DNA strands establishes degree of distant matrilineal kinship, far beyond the few generations recognized by society.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Etruscans (4140 words)

	Craig Welch: Phaistos disk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Regardless of one's language attitude as to whether the disk might be read as either Indo-European (related to Mycenaean or Hittite) or as Minoan (most probably then Semitic), regardless of the choice, the question of a civilization context must be given some satisfactory answers.
		A resident people from the Caucassus, the Mycenaeans (so named after their chief citidel) speak a language which we later know from their records in Linear B. Linear B itself is an adaptation of an earlier syllabic script in use at the time of the Minoan overlords and found in their cities.
		The Mycenaean language deciphered from Linear B by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick is a Greek dialect with traces of the Aeolic and Arcadian dialects and apparently precedes the traditional arrival of the Dorians.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~artsfx/notes2.html (1633 words)

	Minoan Civilization - Dilos Holiday World
		Their language is not known, for the written texts have not yet been deciphered, but it appears to have belonged to a separate category of the Mediterranean languages.
		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.
		The presence of this dynasty is attested both by the very archaic Greek language written in Linear B and by the appearance of the "Palace Style" pottery.
	www.dilos.com /location/13406 (2855 words)

	Cretan Greek language
		The Cretan dialect is spoken by the majority of the Cretan Greeks in the island of Crete, as well as by several thousands of Cretans who have settled in major Greek cities, notably in Athens.
		The tendency to purge the language of foreign elements was above all represented by Chortatsis, Kornaros and the anonymous poets of Voskopoula and the Sacrifice of Abraham, whose works highlight the expressive power of the dialect.
		It was thanks to this convention that the Cretan comedies were written in a language that was an amalgam of Italicisms, Latinisms and the local dialect, thereby approximating to the actual language of the middle class of the Cretan towns.
	www.about-crete.gr /cretan-greek-language.html (823 words)

	ellipsis: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In some programming languages (Perl, Ada, etc.), a shortened 2-character ellipsis, as well as the standard 3-character version, is used to either represent a range of entities or perform a bistable boolean test for the beginning and end of a range.
		In the C programming language, an ellipsis is used to represent a variable number of parameters to a function.
		Most programming languages other than Perl6 require the ellipsis to be written as a series of periods; a single ellipsis character cannot be used.
	proxies.gr /nph-proxy.cgi/010110A/http/www.answers.com/topic/... (2351 words)

	Minoan civilization - Phantis
		The language of the Minoans, about which little is known, is referred to as Eteocretan.
		The Minoans had their own language now referred to as Eteocretan, though little is known about it.
		The latter was a very archaic version of the Greek language and was successfully deciphered by Michael Ventris in the 1950s, but the earlier scripts still remain a mystery.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Minoan_civilization (4344 words)

	Etruscan civilization - The Mind-N-Magick Paganpedia
		If the Etruscans were not already on the Villanovan range, they must have entered Italy en masse from the sea, fought a major war to displace the indigenes, and developed into three confederacies of 36 cities, all within 100 years and without leaving any legends or other evidence.
		In an effort to resolve the contradictions, a team of geneticists from different universities in Italy and Spain undertook the first genetic studies of the ancient Etruscans on mitochondrial DNA from 80 bone samples taken from tombs dating from the 7th century to the 3rd century BC in Etruria.
		In ordinary language, comparison of mitochondrial DNA strands establishes degree of distant kinship, far beyond the few generations recognized by society.
	paganpedia.mind-n-magick.com /wiki/index.php?title=Etruscan_civilization (3904 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Etruscan civilization
		Under Romulus and Numa the people were said to have been divided into thirty curiae and three tribes.
		Very few words of Etruscan entered the Latin language, but the names of at least two of the tribes - Ramnes and Luceres - seem to be Etruscan.
		The last kings may have borne the Etruscan title lucumo, while the regalia were traditionally considered of Etruscan origin: the golden crown, sceptre, the toga palmata (a special robe), the sella curulis (curule chair), and above all the primary symbol of state power: the fasces.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Etruscan_civilization (4586 words)

	Eteocretan
		The Eteocretan language, also called Minoan, was the pre-Hellenic language of Crete, spoken by the Minoans until ca.
		There are also similarities with the pre-Hellenic language of Phrygia, which has been found to be similar to the Armenian language.
		Despite the fall of the Minoan civilization, inscriptions in Eteocretan dating until ca.
	en.mcfly.org /Eteocretan (109 words)

	ancientlanguages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nubian was the principal language of the Sudan and the southern part of Egypt during the Middle Ages.
		An ancient language of the coast of Lebanon and Israel.
		A language spoken in Lithuania, Poland and Byelorus.
	talismanunlimited.tripod.com /ancientlanguages.htm (1862 words)

	chronology of boys' clothing : ancient civilizations -- Minoans
		Scholars suggest that the Minoan language needs to be placed in a separate category of the Mediterranean languages.
		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)

	Eteocretan - Toseeka Search Results
		Very little is known about Eteocretan except that it may be the descendant of a...
		Minoan civilization, inscriptions in Eteocretan survive dating from the...
		ecr is not a language code used in the Ethnologue, 15th edition.
	www.toseeka.com /subject/Eteocretan (678 words)

	Alphabetic Responses to Western Semitic Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Eteocretans claimed to be the first inhabitants of the island of Crete.
		It is commonly assumed that the various local alphabets that emerged in connection with the adaptation of the Semitic alphabet to the Greek language were essentially the result of accident.
		The pattern of diffusion of the Greek alphabet, and the uses to which it is put, is complex and must be examined in the context of the wider culture of writing in the areas which adopted it.
	www.csad.ox.ac.uk /LSAG/Conference2004/Jconf.04.html (1214 words)

	Maybes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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)

	Minoan Civilization
		The (undeciphered) language of the Minoans is referred to as Eteocretan, which may have been written in the also-undeciphered Linear A script.
		The statues of priestesses in Minoan culture and frescoes showing men and women participating in the same sports (usually bull-leaping) lead some archaeologists to believe that men and women held equal social status, and that inheritance might even have been matrilineal.
		The latter was a very archaic version of the Greek language and was successfully deciphered by Michael Ventris in the 1950s, but the earlier scripts remain a mystery.
	mlahanas.de /Greeks/History/Minoans.html (2062 words)

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