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4 days ago · The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examples dating to around 1400 BC. [1] It is adapted from the earlier Linear A, an undeciphered script potentially used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek.
4 days ago · 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 is often regarded as the first civilization in Europe. The ruins of the Minoan palaces at Knossos and Phaistos are popular tourist attractions.
2 days ago · Early Indo-European OnLine. 2 The Cuneiform Syllabary. Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Hittite is written in a form of the cuneiform syllabary, a writing system in use in Sumerian city-states in Mesopotamia by roughly 3100 B.C.E. and used to write a number of languages in the ancient Near East until the first century B.C.E.
5 days ago · Logograms are symbols used in writing language that stand for an entire word or morpheme, a meaningful unit of speech. Examples of logograms in English are numerals and symbols such as # ( pound or number) and % ( percent ). Many of the world's earliest writing systems, such as the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, used logograms.
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1 day ago · Youth can utilize the Internet or books from a local library to research different facts about the Cherokee language and Sequoyah, the creator of the Cherokee syllabary.
5 days ago · The Cherokee language is the only south Iroquoian language still spoken in the United States. Although this colorful language of the Cherokee people, or Tsalagi, has been spoken for thousands of years, its written syllabary was invented in the early 19th century.
