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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 about the 10th century BC and finally became extinct in about the
4th century BC. The language is as yet unknown except for a small vocabulary attested in bilingual inscriptions. Such topics
as syntax and possible inflection or agglutination remain a mystery. Partial translations depend to a large extent on the
language or language group assumed by the translator, but there is no consistency. It is conjectured by some linguists to
be related to the Etruscan and Lemnian languages, and by others to be Northwest Semitic. Those who do not advocate any of
those theories often adopt the default of an unknown pre-Greek language. Due to the small number of texts found, there is
currently much unproven speculation. |
Names (more)[br] Eteokiprenezeg[de] Eteokyprische Sprache [en] Eteocypriot language [fr] Étéocypriote [it] Eteocipriota [nl] Eteocypriotisch [pl] Język eteocypryjski [pt] Língua eteocipriota [ru] Этеокипрский язык [es] Idioma eteochipriota [uk] Етеокіпрська мова |
Language type : Ancient
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : ecyLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ecyhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:ecy More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: ecyFreebase ISO 639-3 : ecy GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |