Cyprus-Forum.com

[kurupetos]

for the astute reader:

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00 ... TPMyth.pdf

[Sotos]

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!

And what they derived from the Minoan script they used it to write Greek. I think that says it all. It is like some people who only know Greek but they only have Latin on their computers so they use what they have to write the language they know, like this: En ellinika pou milloumen dame re GR!

[Get Real!]

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!

And what they derived from the Minoan script they used it to write Greek. I think that says it all. It is like some people who only know Greek but they only have Latin on their computers so they use what they have to write the language they know, like this: En ellinika pou milloumen dame re GR!

Xibna vlaka Kipreo tsie eklepsan sou ta oulla oi kalamaraes! Monon to sovrako sou emine...

[kurupetos]

From the article I just posted:

Nevertheless, the Amathusians and their very peculiar language, far from
being a '20th-century myth', are a well~documented historical reality.

These data were combined
to argue that the Amathusians were ethnically
and linguistically the heirs of the Bronze
Age inhabitants of Cyprus, whose culture was
known in the cuneiform texts as the culture
of Alashiya. From that time, they use the
phrase 'Alashiyan language', and later 'Eteocypriot'
(from the Greek eteos 'real; true', for
which see Masson 1983: 85; Reyes 1994: 13).

[Sotos]

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...

The people that were in Cyprus before Greeks probably spoke different languages. The Chrikotians that were at 7000BC didn't speak the same language as these people from 2000BC. And as you see all these settlements are destroyed at some point. You keep ignoring this fact!

[Simon]

GR seems to think that because there was life on Cyprus before the Greeks arrived, this means that Cypriots are not Greek today. What kind of ridiculous logic is that? In that case the people of Crete are not Greeks, as Crete had a great civilisation before the Greeks. You can say the same of many regions around the world. The Greeks colonised many areas of Cyprus and founded numerous settlements. The pre-existing Cypriots were assimilated. Your arguments just make no sense GR

[Get Real!]

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...

The people that were in Cyprus before Greeks probably spoke different languages. The Chrikotians that were at 7000BC didn't speak the same language as these people from 2000BC. And as you see all these settlements are destroyed at some point. You keep ignoring this fact!

Absolute rubbish! The Sotira settlement and others followed, Cyprus was always inhabited. How else did the Mycenaeans “borrow” (read pinch) the Cypriot Alphabet to develop their own if there was nobody here you fool???

[Oracle]

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...

The people that were in Cyprus before Greeks probably spoke different languages. The Chrikotians that were at 7000BC didn't speak the same language as these people from 2000BC. And as you see all these settlements are destroyed at some point. You keep ignoring this fact!

What's 5,000 years between Greeks ....

[Simon]

[kurupetos]

Moreover, the heuristic process of both
authors is incomplete: there does exist an
earlier document which corroborates the existence
of a both non-Greek and non-Phoenician
population in the island.