Arcadocypriot Greek
Ancient Greek dialect spoken in Arcadia in the central Peloponnese and in Cyprus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arcadocypriot, or southern Achaean, was an ancient Greek dialect spoken in Arcadia in the central Peloponnese and in Cyprus. Its resemblance to Mycenaean Greek, as it is known from the Linear B corpus, suggests that Arcadocypriot is its descendant.
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Region | Arcadia, Cyprus | |||
Era | c. 1200 ā 300 BC[citation needed] | |||
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Greek alphabet Cypriot syllabary | ||||
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ISO 639-3 | ā | |||
grc-arc | ||||
Glottolog | arca1234 | |||
Distribution of Greek dialects in Greece in the classical period.[1]
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In Cyprus the dialect was written using solely the Cypriot syllabary. The most extensive surviving text of the dialect is the Idalion Tablet.[2] A significant literary source on the vocabulary comes from the lexicon of 5th century AD grammarian Hesychius.