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Cypriots - The Original Christians, 1000s of years before Christ!

The old testament (Moses etc) was started at around 1200BC…

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Ate boulli mou… ebies na pessis oxa agoma?

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Cypriots - The Original Christians, 1000s of years before Christ!

The old testament (Moses etc) was started at around 1200BC…

Thats a fairy tale. Here we are talking about facts And besides we are talking about Christianity which is just 2000 years old. Moses was not a Christian

[Get Real!]

Cypriots - The Original Christians, 1000s of years before Christ!

The old testament (Moses etc) was started at around 1200BC…

Thats a fairy tale. Here we are talking about facts And besides we are talking about Christianity which is just 2000 years old. Moses was not a Christian

Sotiraki mou, ate mana mou... bigenne pesse tsie isse grima tsie liboume se!

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Did you miss this GR? "A major earthquake destroyed the settlement in 1,850 B.C. " The Chirokitians also went extinct before that. I don't know if Cyprus was vacant when the Greeks first came but for sure it seems it was almost vacant at that time. Life was very hard back then. You needed more than one - two settlements to have a chance to survive for long. And the Greeks were the first to make many settlements in Cyprus. If one was destroyed the rest would keep going.

Soritaki, leave Cypriot matters to unkie GR who knows better because you're as daft as your avatar...

What is “Civilization”?

“An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions. “

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/di ... vilization


From “The Cypriot font” by Peter Wilson…

“The Cypriot script was used in Cyprus for almost a thousand years, from about
1000–200 bc. Cypriot is a syllabary, where there is a sign for each syllable. There are 55 signs in the Cypriot syllabary. The script was used for record keeping, not for literary purposes. It was used in Cyprus until about the third century bc, although by this time few could read or write it. At this late date its use was principally for recording inscriptions on votive offerings and public works, and in many cases the Cypriot script was accompanied by a Greek alphabetic version of the same text.”

“Cypriot was used to write Greek centuries before the Greek alphabet was
invented. Perhaps surprisingly, Cypriot has no other relationship to the Greek
alphabet except that they can both be used to write the same language. There
is, however, a relationship between the Cypriot syllabary and the earlier Linear B
syllabary, which was principally used in Crete, as some of the signs are the same.”

http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub//tex-archi ... ypriot.pdf


The Cypriot script…

http://www.ancientscripts.com/cypriot.html

I highlighted the important part As you know Greeks existed from before the Greek alphabet.

[Sotos]

Did you miss this GR? "A major earthquake destroyed the settlement in 1,850 B.C. " The Chirokitians also went extinct before that. I don't know if Cyprus was vacant when the Greeks first came but for sure it seems it was almost vacant at that time. Life was very hard back then. You needed more than one - two settlements to have a chance to survive for long. And the Greeks were the first to make many settlements in Cyprus. If one was destroyed the rest would keep going.

Soritaki, leave Cypriot matters to unkie GR who knows better because you're as daft as your avatar...

What is “Civilization”?

“An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions. “

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/di ... vilization


From “The Cypriot font” by Peter Wilson…

“The Cypriot script was used in Cyprus for almost a thousand years, from about
1000–200 bc. Cypriot is a syllabary, where there is a sign for each syllable. There are 55 signs in the Cypriot syllabary. The script was used for record keeping, not for literary purposes. It was used in Cyprus until about the third century bc, although by this time few could read or write it. At this late date its use was principally for recording inscriptions on votive offerings and public works, and in many cases the Cypriot script was accompanied by a Greek alphabetic version of the same text.”

“Cypriot was used to write Greek centuries before the Greek alphabet was
invented. Perhaps surprisingly, Cypriot has no other relationship to the Greek
alphabet except that they can both be used to write the same language. There
is, however, a relationship between the Cypriot syllabary and the earlier Linear B
syllabary, which was principally used in Crete, as some of the signs are the same.”

http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub//tex-archi ... ypriot.pdf


The Cypriot script…

http://www.ancientscripts.com/cypriot.html

I highlighted the important part As you know Greeks existed from before the Greek alphabet.

It just shows for how long Cypriots are Greeks. We were Greeks centuries before the invention of the Greek Alphabet. Most people don't even know that Greeks existed that long ago. They think that the first Greeks are the Athenians and the Spartans and all those philosophers and scientists. All those came much after!

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I highlighted the important part As you know Greeks existed from before the Greek alphabet.

If anything you should be wondering…

If the Cypriots had an alphabet so far back in the past, then surely they MUST have first had a LANGUAGE!!!

[Simon]

I put you right about this last time, but it seems you never got the message as usual.

The Cypriots never had an alphabet, but a syllabic script which derived from Linear A, and most probably was Minoan due to great similarities between the two!

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I highlighted the important part As you know Greeks existed from before the Greek alphabet.

If anything you should be wondering…

If the Cypriots had an alphabet so far back in the past, then surely they MUST have first had a LANGUAGE!!!

All people have language otherwise we are talking about monkeys But the people you are talking about with the Cypriot syllabary are Greek people. They had a language and it was Greek. That is why they wrote Greek.

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It just shows for how long Cypriots are Greeks. We were Greeks centuries before the invention of the Greek Alphabet. Most people don't even know that Greeks existed that long ago. They think that the first Greeks are the Athenians and the Spartans and all those philosophers and scientists. All those came much after!

So according to you, the Cypriots were mute and only wrote things down whereas the Greeks couldn’t write but had a language and they joined forces!

Re poulli… you will eventually discover that Cyprus was the center of all regional civilization! Even great pharaohs of Egypt mention Cyprus in their ancient scripture, way before anything Greek even existed!

Wake up to reality...