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Eteocretan language, the Glossary

Eteocretan (from Eteókrētes, lit. "true Cretans", itself composed from ἐτεός eteós "true" and Κρής Krḗs "Cretan") is the pre-Greek language attested in a few alphabetic inscriptions of ancient Crete.^[1]

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Archaic Greece
Languages attested from the 7th century BC
Languages extinct in the 3rd century BC
Languages of ancient Crete
Pre-Indo-European languages
Unclassified languages of Europe

Achaeans (Homer)

The Achaeans or Akhaians (Akhaioí, "the Achaeans" or "of Achaea") is one of the names in Homer which is used to refer to the Greeks collectively.

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Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Combinatorial method (linguistics)

The combinatorial method is a method of linguistic analysis that is used to study texts which are written in an unknown language, and to study the language itself, where the unknown language has no obvious or proven well-understood close relatives, and where there are few bilingual texts which might otherwise have been used to help understand the language.

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Cretan hieroglyphs

Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era.

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Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Decipherment

In philology, decipherment is the discovery of the meaning of texts written in ancient or obscure languages or scripts.

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Digamma

Digamma or wau (uppercase: Ϝ, lowercase: ϝ, numeral: ϛ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Dorians

The Dorians (Δωριεῖς, Dōrieîs, singular Δωριεύς, Dōrieús) were one of the four major ethnic groups into which the Hellenes (or Greeks) of Classical Greece divided themselves (along with the Aeolians, Achaeans, and Ionians).

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Dreros

Dreros (Δρῆρος), also (representing Modern Greek pronunciation) Driros, near Neapoli in the regional unit of Lasithi, Crete, is a post-Minoan archaeological site, northwest of Agios Nikolaos.

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Eteocypriot language

Eteocypriot is an extinct non-Indo-European language that was spoken in Cyprus by a non-Hellenic population during the Iron Age. Eteocretan language and Eteocypriot language are extinct languages of Europe, pre-Indo-European languages and Unclassified languages of Europe.

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Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.

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Heraklion

Heraklion or Herakleion (Ηράκλειο), sometimes Iraklion, is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit.

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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James Mellaart

James Mellaart FBA (14 November 1925 – 29 July 2012) was an English archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey.

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Kydonia

Kydonia, also known as Cydonia (Κυδωνία, Kydōnía) was an ancient city located at the site of present-day Chania on the island of Crete in Greece.

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Lambda

Lambda (.

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Lemnian language

The Lemnian language was spoken on the island of Lemnos, Greece, in the second half of the 6th century BC. Eteocretan language and Lemnian language are archaic Greece and extinct languages of Europe.

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Leto

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Leto (Λητώ|Lētṓ) is a goddess and the mother of Apollo and Artemis.

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Linear A

Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC.

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Margherita Guarducci

Margherita Guarducci, also spelled Guarduci (20 December 1902 – 2 September 1999), was an Italian archaeologist, classical scholar, and epigrapher.

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Minoan language

The Minoan language is the language (or languages) of the ancient Minoan civilization of Crete written in the Cretan hieroglyphs and later in the Linear A syllabary. Eteocretan language and Minoan language are extinct languages of Europe and Unclassified languages of Europe.

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Multilingual inscription

In epigraphy, a multilingual inscription is an inscription that includes the same text in two or more languages.

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Neapoli, Crete

Neapoli (Νεάπολη) is a small town and a former municipality in Lasithi, eastern Crete, Greece.

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Odysseus

In Greek and Roman mythology, Odysseus (Odyseús), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (Ulixes), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

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Pelasgians

The name Pelasgians (Pelasgoí, singular: Πελασγός Pelasgós) was used by Classical Greek writers to refer either to the predecessors of the Greeks, or to all the inhabitants of Greece before the emergence of the Greeks.

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Praesus

Praesus or Praisos (Πραῖσος), also Prasus or Prasos (Πρᾶσος), was a Greek city in ancient Crete.

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Pre-Greek substrate

The pre-Greek substrate (or substratum) consists of the unknown Pre-Indo-European languages spoken in prehistoric Greece prior to the emergence of the Proto-Greek language in the region, during the Early Helladic period. Eteocretan language and pre-Greek substrate are pre-Indo-European languages.

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Pre-Indo-European languages

The pre-Indo-European languages are any of several ancient languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in Prehistoric Europe, Asia Minor, Ancient Iran and Southern Asia before the arrival of speakers of Indo-European languages.

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Psychro Cave

Psychro Cave (Σπήλαιο Ψυχρού) is an ancient Minoan sacred cave in Lasithi plateau in the Lasithi district of eastern Crete.

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Semitic languages

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.

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Strabo

StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.

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Tyrsenian languages

Tyrsenian (also Tyrrhenian or Common Tyrrhenic), named after the Tyrrhenians (Ancient Greek, Ionic: Tyrsenoi) is a proposed extinct family of closely related ancient languages put forward by linguist Helmut Rix in 1998, which consists of the Etruscan language of northern, central and south-western Italy, and eastern Corsica (France); the Raetic language of the Alps, named after the Rhaetian people; and the Lemnian language of the Aegean Sea. Eteocretan language and Tyrsenian languages are pre-Indo-European languages.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eteocretan_language

Also known as Eteo-Cretan, Eteocretan, Eteocretans, Eteocretes, ISO 639:ecr.

Eteocretan language, the Glossary

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Archaic Greece

Languages attested from the 7th century BC

Languages extinct in the 3rd century BC

Languages of ancient Crete

Pre-Indo-European languages

Unclassified languages of Europe

References