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    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...
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    The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete. Known for its monumental architecture and energetic art, it...
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    probably derived from the Minoan language preserved in the Linear A inscriptions of a millennium earlier. Since that language remains undeciphered, it...
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    Linear A (redirect from Minoan Linear A)
    Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan, and Cretan hieroglyphic. In the 1950s, Linear B was deciphered and found to have an underlying language of Mycenaean Greek...
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  • The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM), more commonly called the Cypro-Minoan Script, is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus and at its trading...
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  • Minoan language written in that script the Eteocretan language, probably a descendant thereof Minoan pottery Minoan eruption Minoan chronology Minoan...
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    non-Greek languages of those places. Eteocypriot was written in the Cypriot syllabary, a syllabic script derived from Linear A (via the Cypro-Minoan variant...
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    descendant of Minoan) Eteocypriot language (see also Cypro-Minoan script) Pre-Germanic: Germanic substrate hypothesis Pre-Celtic languages: Insular Celtic:...
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  • Thumbnail for Minoan pottery
    The Minoan civilization produced a wide variety of richly decorated Minoan pottery. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something...
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    Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals...
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    Minoan chronology is a framework of dates used to divide the history of the Minoan civilization. Two systems of relative chronology are used for the Minoans...
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    Two Minoan snake goddess figurines were excavated in 1903 in the Minoan palace at Knossos in the Greek island of Crete. The decades-long excavation programme...
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    Linear B (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    earlier Linear A, an undeciphered script perhaps used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek. Linear...
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    Phaistos (category Articles containing Minoan-language text)
    During the Early Minoan period, the site's hills were terraced and monumental buildings were constructed on them. Like other large Minoan cities, there was...
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    Minoan religion was the religion of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization of Crete. In the absence of readable texts from most of the period, modern scholars...
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  • Michael Ventris (category CS1 Greek-language sources (el))
    Minoan Language, essay article in American Journal of Archaeology XLIV/4 October–December 1940. Ventris, Michael (1950). The languages of the Minoan and...
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  • (speculated to record a "Harappan language") Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear A (encoding a possible "Minoan language") the Cypro-Minoan syllabary Earlier symbols...
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    Minoan palaces were massive building complexes built on Crete during the Bronze Age. They are often considered emblematic of the Minoan civilization and...
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    Linear B was derived from Linear A, the script of an undeciphered Minoan language, the sounds of Mycenaean are not fully represented. A limited number...
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    Prehistory of Southeast Europe (category Articles with Romanian-language sources (ro))
    older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek. Linear...
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    hieroglyphs are scripts from an unknown language, one possibility being a yet to be deciphered Minoan language. Several words have been decoded from the...
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    between Etruscan and Minoan. Facchetti proposes a hypothetical language family derived from Minoan in two branches. From Minoan he proposes a Proto-Tyrrhenian...
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    substrate Minoan Eteocretan – may be a descendant of Minoan, but this is uncertain Cypro-Minoan Eteocypriot – may be a descendant of Cypro-Minoan[citation...
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    Gareth Alun Owens (category Eteocretan language)
    of Minoan and Mycenaean Crete (Amsterdam & Las Palmas, Gran Canarias:1997) ISBN 90-256-1096-X. Evidence for Indo-European Language in the Minoan Documents...
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  • western Slovakia Lab a school in Chicago ISO 639 code for the ancient Minoan language of Crete LAB Records, a British independent record label LAB (band)...
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    Athena (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    undeciphered corpus of Linear A tablets, written in the unclassified Minoan language. This could be connected with the Linear B Mycenaean expressions a-ta-na...
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    hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. They predate Linear A by about a century, but the two writing systems...
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  • Minoan Lines is one of the largest passenger ferry companies in Europe, and one of the dominant passenger ferry companies in Greece, sailing between Piraeus...
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  • Eteocypriot language Iberian language Ligurian Linear A language (= Minoan) Minoan language North Picene language Pictish language Raetic language Sicanian...
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    Mycenaean Greece (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    migrants and a Minoan-like population, with steppe migrants considered to be Indo-European speakers and progenitors of the Greek language. Minoans were predominantly...
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