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The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary (also Classical Cypriot Syllabary) is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from about the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE, when it was replaced by the Greek alphabet. It has been suggested that the script remained in use as late as the 1st century BC. [1] A pioneer of that change was King Evagoras of Salamis.
The script of the tablet is in the Cypriot syllabary and the inscription itself is in the Arcadocypriot dialect of Greek. [ 1 ] The tablet was kept in the ancient official depository of the temple of Athena on the western acropolis of Idalion, where it was discovered in 1850 by a farmer from the village of Dali, Cyprus . [ 2 ]
Discoveries have been made at various sites around Cyprus, as well as in the ancient city of Ugarit on the Syrian coast. It is thought to be somehow related to the later Cypriot syllabary. The Cypro-Minoan Script was in use during the Late Cypriot period from the LC IA:2 period until the LC IIIA period or roughly from 1500 BC until 1150 BC.
Bright Side (stylized in all caps) is a Cypriot YouTube channel operated by media publisher TheSoul Publishing. Founded in 2017, the channel uploads videos regarding how-to trivia as well as history and knowledge and mistakes. The YouTube channel has over 44.6 million subscribers to its main channel, and over 10.938 billion views. [3]
The following is a list of programs broadcast by CyBC or RIK (Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation) television stations. CybC was the only Cypriot television network before the launches of ANT1 (in 1993), Mega (Logos TV until 1999), and Sigma (in 1995).
Eteocypriot is an extinct non-Indo-European language that was spoken in Cyprus by a non-Hellenic population during the Iron Age.The name means "true" or "original Cypriot" parallel to Eteocretan, both of which names are used by modern scholars to mean the non-Greek languages of those places. [2]
Since the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Turkish is found almost exclusively in Northern Cyprus, which is home to approximately 300,000 native Turkish speakers (including varieties of Turkish other than Cypriot) as of 2016 and 1,400 speakers in the south as of 2013. [2]
1 Cyprus oke = 1.27290572612 L or 2 + 6 ⁄ 25 Cyprus litres 1 Cyprus litre = 3.1822643153 L or 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 Cyprus okes, or 2 + 4 ⁄ 5 quarts 1 gallon = 4.546091879 L or 4 quarts, or 8 pints (The legal definition of the gallon and derived units in Cyprus was not the same as in the UK; in fact, the 1965 definition was used.)