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by **Get Real!** » Mon May 04, 2009 6:24 pm

EPSILON wrote:Very good theory-with one small problem-how it happen the NEO CYPRIOTS to not be able to read and write?

EDO SE THELO AGA MOU!!!

The Cypriots could read & write some 800 years before the Greeks even managed to say "A"...

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

by **Get Real!** » Mon May 04, 2009 6:38 pm

polis wrote:
Paphitis wrote:
I must thank you once again for that link.

It was really a great link and the best way to end the thread. Talkling about shooting oneself in the leg.

No worries… we’ll just jump to this section of the article then:

“…the scribes who adapted the Greek alphabet from the Phoenician consonantal script were accustomed to writing Greek in the syllabic script of Cyprus.”

Either way you look at it Politsa, you’re screwed and left with two options…

1. If Mycenaeans came to Cyprus, then you CANNOT escape the fact that the ancient Greeks were educated by the Cypriots.

2. If Mycenaeans did NOT come to Cyprus, then you’ll have to invent a way to explain how you were taught and borrowed the Phoenician script.

There is no escape...

by **T_C** » Mon May 04, 2009 6:38 pm

Cypro-Minoan Syllabary...the one that derives from Linear A...the one before Mycenaean Greek Linear B!

We even had our own language (Eteocypriot) which according to Wiki "was under pressure from Arcadocypriot Greek from ca. the 10th century BC and finally became extinct in ca. the 4th century BC." :shock: