Eteocypriot language

As Eteokyprisch or Eteozyprisch Aegean refers to a language that was probably spoken in the 1st millennium BC near the ancient Greek Cyprus. It was supplanted by the Greek and died until about 400 BC from.

At this time your own syllabary was used in Cyprus ( Cyprian syllabary ), with most listed in this document texts represent the Arcadian - Cypriot dialect of ancient Greek. In addition, however, there are some texts (about 20 ), which can not be interpreted in Greek and in which one evidence of a native language eteokyprischen suspected (but underneath is a bilingual from Amathus, which is also inscribed in Greek ).

Rubric of language

• Cyrus H. Gordon interprets the language of the non-Greek texts as a Semitic language.

• Thierry Petit assumes that the language of the Hurrian and Urartian, both also could be extinct related.

• Aleksei Charsekin has also tried to interpret the texts with the help of the Etruscan and Lemnian: aisona: divine, of God [ etr. : ' Divine ']
• Ana: it (an- oti ' from him ') [ etr. : ' he, she ']
• Eki: here [ etr. ]
• Kail: Country, Earth ( kail -i ' in the earth ') [ etr. : ' in the earth ']
• Lasana: Tyrrhenians / Etruscan [ etr. : ' Tyrrhenians / Etruscans ']
• You: are ( one -a ' it is ') [ etr. ]
• Mun: Land, Plot, burial place ( mun - oti ' in the earth ') [ etr. , ]
• OITE: Mother [ etr. ' mother ']
• Poti: leader / chief
• Sot: crypt ( soti in the crypt ') [ etr. : ' grave ']
• Ta: those (r / s) (tan: ' those (r / s) ', tan - oti: ' in those (r / s) in' ) [ etr. ]
• Tu: here [ etr. < θui > ' here ']
• To: consecrate ( IESA - to -i: ' consecrated ') [ lemn. : ' consecrated ']