Information AboutArcadocypriot |
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Arcadocypriot was an ancient Greek Dialect spoken in Arcadia and Cyprus between ca. the 7th and 4th centuries BC. It is directly descended from Mycenaean Greek , being spoken in areas where the Mycenaean population retreated from the Dorian Invasion . The dialect is only known from inscriptions. In Cyprus, it was written using the Cypriot Syllabary . Tsan was a letter only in use in Arcadia, up to ca. the 6th century BC. Arcadocypriot kept a lot of characteristics of Mycenaean lost in other classical greek dialects, such as the /w/ sound ( Digamma ). |
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