Cypro-Minoan syllabary

The Cypro - Minoan script (also altkyprische font or font Linear C, in short: CM) is a writing system, probably a syllabic script that was used in the Bronze Age Cyprus from about the 15th to the 12th century BC. Individual findings come from Ugarit and Latakia (both in present-day Syria). It originated from the Minoan Linear A script and was the predecessor of the Cypriot script. It is in three closely-related writing systems (CM I, CM II and CM III) divided; of that there is an archaic variant, which is very close to the linear script A. The unit of CM I will however strongly challenged in recent times. Comparisons with legible related writings ( Linear B, Cyprian writing) can indeed be almost 50 syllabic signs with any degree of certainty determine, but the lyrics are largely incomprehensible, because the underlying kyprominoische language, probably a precursor of eteokyprischen language is still incomprehensible. Overall, the font has 114 characters, 24 characters are present in all three writing systems. The text corpus consists of mainly literary texts probably on burned clay tablets, votive inscriptions (?), Five sound cylinders of unknown function, small Tonbullen and other inscriptions of unknown function.

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