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Meet the Cypriot syllabic "Alphabet"...



For technical detail read here...
http://www.ancientscripts.com/cypriot.html

What about the Greek alphabet?

http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/3208.html

Need confirmation?

The Controversy: Who invented the alphabet, the Phoenicians or the Greeks?

Among the many suggestions referring to the place of adoption of the Phoenician signs by the Hellenes and the development of the alphabet most possible are the islands of Rhodes, Crete, and Cyprus and the trading colony at al-Mina in north Syria. However, recent archaeological evidence suggests that Cyprus, an island situated on the East-West Mediterranean trade routes and one of the major grading centers in the Mediterranean world in the ninth and eighth centuries BC, should be considered as the actual place of the adaption by visiting traders from Hellas, who created the alphabet in order to facilitate their mercantile transactions.

http://phoenicia.org/alphabetcontrov.html

Stay tuned...

[Kristianikos]

Interesting.

I had read about the cypriot syllabic alphabet before.. but not in much detail..

Is this saying that the Greek alphabet came from the Cypriot or rather the phonecian ?

[phoenix]

Interesting.

I had read about the cypriot syllabic alphabet before.. but not in much detail..

Is this saying that the Greek alphabet came from the Cypriot or rather the phonecian ?

I think Woodard is saying that the Greeks who came to Cyprus made use of the Cypriot syllabograms and even took these back to Greece.
Later, the Greeks adapted the Phoenician alphabet to redefine the original Cypriot syllabograms and presumably evolved the Greek alphabet.

[free_cyprus]

this news is not new news actualy if i remember rightly it was people of crete who first use this syllabograms, they incorporated it into their own version taking some from cypriots, and using them. but most people think they are greek lol. aslo they found some stuff that looks similar to those that is being used in the greek alphabate, but they cannot decode them hense cypriots and cyprus was an advance civilisation before all this invasions and rules started, that has lasted till today

[Get Real!]

Those ungrateful Greeks... we gave them an alphabet and they gave us their junta!