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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 ]
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]
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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 Greek script is used for Cypriot Arabic in a Cypriot Arabic–Greek dictionary. [ 22 ] Alexander Borg, a linguist specialising in the language, created a Latin-based alphabet with elements from Maltese and Greek that the non-governmental organisation for the revitalisation of the language "Hki Fi Sanna" endorsed in 2007, and some "small ...
Emanating from Anatolia and evolved for four centuries, Cypriot Turkish is the vernacular spoken by Cypriots with Ottoman ancestry, as well as by Cypriots who converted to Islam during Ottoman rule. [1]
Following last week's repeated stock market highs, the tone at the start this week is decidedly bearish, with unsettling news out of the eurozone rattling markets worldwide. U.S. stocks opened ...