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Cypriot syllabary
The
Cypriot
or
Cypriote 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
. A pioneer of that change was king
Evagoras
of
Salamis
. It is descended from the
Cypro-Minoan syllabary
, in turn a variant or derivative of
Linear A
. Most texts using the script are in the
Arcadocypriot
dialect of
Greek
, but some bilingual (Greek and
Eteocypriot
) inscriptions were found in
Amathus
.
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