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Preferred term

ecyEteocypriot  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Eteocypriot was a pre-Indo-European language spoken in Iron Age Cyprus. The name means "true" or "original Cyprian" parallel to Eteocretan, both of which names are used by modern scholarship to mean the pre-Greek languages of those places. Eteocypriot was written in the Cypriot syllabary, a syllabic script derived from Linear A (via the Cypro-Minoan variant Linear C). The language was under pressure from Arcadocypriot Greek from ca. the 10th century BC and finally became extinct in c. the 4th century BC.

Entry terms

  • Eteocypriot language

ISO 639-3 code

  • ecy

Notation

  • ecy

In other languages

  • Étéocypriote

    French

  • Eteokyprische Sprache

    German

  • Eteocipriota

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma eteochipriota

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ecy

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