Cypro-Minoan language

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Kyprominoic

Spoken in

formerly in Cyprus
speaker none ( language extinct )
Linguistic
classification

unknown

  • Kyprominoic
Official status
Official language in unknown
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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ISO 639 -2

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Cypro-Minoan clay balls (CM I)

The Cypro-Minoan language is a previously incomprehensible language spoken in Bronze Age Cyprus , which was written with the Cypro-Minoan script , which has only been partially deciphered . It was possibly the forerunner of the Eeteokyprian language . As far as the texts indicate, Kypro-Minoan was an agglutinating language in which suffixes played an important role. The u. a. The relationship with Hurrian suggested by Emilia Masson cannot be proven with the current state of research.

However, the linguistic unity of the Cypro-Minoan inscriptions is not certain. The U. a. The area of distribution of the script as far as Ugarit leaves the possibility open that several languages ​​were recorded in this script.

literature

For text editions see Kypro-Minoan script .

  • Yves Duhoux : Eteocypriot and Cypro-Minoan 1-3. In: Kadmos , Vol. 48, 2010, pp. 39-75.
  • Emilia Masson: Cyprominoica - Repertoires, Documents de Ras Shamra, Essais d'Interpretation . Studies in Mediterranean Archeology. Vol. 31.2. Studies in the Cypro-Minoan Scripts 2. Åström, Göteborg 1974. ISBN 91-85058-41-6 , ISBN 91-85058-43-2 (on similarities with Hurricane : pp. 47–53)
  • Werner Nahm: Studies on the Cypro-Minoan script. T 2. in: Kadmos. de Gruyter, Berlin 23.1984, 164–179. ISSN  0022-7498 (morphological and syntactic investigations on four inscriptions based on the phonetic values ​​of the Cypro-Minoan script proposed by Nahm)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published: Emilia Masson: Étude de vingt-six boules d'argile inscrites trouvées a Enkomi et Hala Sultan Tekke (Chypre) (see bibliography), p. 14, No. 8, Fig. 8

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