Cypriot syllabary

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Cypriot
Type:	Syllabary
Languages:	Greek
Time period:	11th — 4th century BC
Parent writing systems:	Linear A  Cypro-Minoan   Cypriot
ISO 15924 code:	Cprt
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The Cypriot syllabary is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from ca. the 11th up to the 4th century BC, 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, but some bilingual (Eteocypriot) inscriptions were found in Amathus.

Sign inventory:

	-a	-e	-i	-o	-u
	𐠀	𐠁	𐠂	𐠃	𐠄
w-	𐠲	𐠳	𐠴	𐠵
z-	𐠼			𐠿
j-	𐠅			𐠈
k-	𐠊	𐠋	𐠌	𐠍	𐠎
l-	𐠏	𐠐	𐠑	𐠒	𐠓
m-	𐠔	𐠕	𐠖	𐠗	𐠘
n-	𐠙	𐠚	𐠛	𐠜	𐠝
ks-	𐠷	𐠸
p-	𐠞	𐠟	𐠠	𐠡	𐠢
r-	𐠣	𐠤	𐠥	𐠦	𐠧
s-	𐠨	𐠩	𐠪	𐠫	𐠬
t-	𐠭	𐠮	𐠯	𐠰	𐠱

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