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Online and in text messaging, Cypriot Greek, like Standard Modern Greek, is commonly written in the Latin script, [43] and English spelling conventions may be adopted for shared sounds, [44] e.g. sh for /ʃ/ (and /ʃː/).
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Line drawing rendering, bronze Idalion Tablet, 5th century BCE, Idalion, Cyprus.. The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary (also Classical Cypriot 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.
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Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; [11] [12] previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. [13] The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems.
The earliest attested reference to Cyprus is the 15th century BC Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀠𐀪𐀍, ku-pi-ri-jo, [31] meaning "Cypriot" (Greek: Κύπριος), written in Linear B syllabic script. [32] The classical Greek form of the name is Κύπρος (Kýpros). The etymology of the name is unknown. Suggestions include:
Modern literary figures from Cyprus writing in Turkish include poets Osman Türkay, Özker Yaşın, Neşe Yaşın, Neriman Cahit and Mehmet Yaşın. Neşe Yaşın is a well known Cypriot Turkish poet and author , who mainly writes in Turkish although a considerable number of her works of prose have been translated into Greek and English.
Eteocypriot was a pre-Indo-European language, indigenous to the island, that competed with Greek following the latter's arrival and was ultimately supplanted by it by the third century BCE. It was written in the Cypriot syllabary that was adopted for Arcadocypriot; the same writing system was used to write both (unrelated) languages. For the ...