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Linear B
n.
A syllabic script used in Mycenaean Greek documents chiefly from Crete and Pylos, mostly from the 14th to the 12th century B.C.
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Archaeology Dictionary:
Linear B
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A second type of syllabary script written on clay tablets, but later in date than Linear A, being found in late Minoan II contexts in Crete and Mycenaean IIIA–B contexts in mainland Greece (broadly 1500–1100 bc). This script was brilliantly deciphered by Michael Ventris, Michael in 1952 who recognized it as an early form of Greek. Most of the tablets known are accounts and inventories.
WordNet:
Linear B
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a syllabic script used in Greece in the 13th century B.C.
Wikipedia:
Linear B
| Linear B | ||
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| Type | Syllabic with additional logographic signs | |
| Languages | Mycenaean | |
| Time period | ||
| Parent systems | Perhaps Linear A Linear B |
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| Unicode range | U+10000–U+1007F syllabic signs U+10080–U+100FF logograms |
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| ISO 15924 | Linb | |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
This article is about the ancient syllabary. See linear b (script engine) for information on the ECMAScript
engine.
Linear B is a script that was used for writing Mycenaean, an early form of Greek. It predated the Greek alphabet by several centuries: it seems to have died out with the fall of Mycenaean civilization; the intervening period, in which there is no evidence of the use of writing, is known as the Greek Dark Ages.
The script appears to be related to Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Minoan language, and the later Cypriot syllabary; derivation from another writing system is held to be the reason for its poor compliance with the phonemic principle. It is partly syllabic, with additional logographic signs that are "determinative", or "designational" (yielding "classes", and "types"). As such, it rather resembles modern Japanese writing in graphemic structure.
The script
Linear B has roughly 200 signs, divided into syllabic signs with phonetic values and logograms (or ideograms) with semantic values.
| History of the Greek language (see also: Greek alphabet) |
| Proto-Greek (c. 2000 BC)
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| Mycenaean (c. 1600–1100 BC)
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| Ancient Greek (c. 800–300 BC) Dialects: Aeolic, Arcadocypriot, Attic-Ionic, Doric, Pamphylian; Homeric Greek. Possible dialect: Macedonian. |
| Koine Greek (from c. 300 BC)
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| Medieval Greek (c. 330–1453)
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| Modern Greek (from 1453) Dialects: Cappadocian, Cretan, Cypriot, Demotic, Griko, Pontic, Tsakonian, Yevanic |
Syllabic signs
| -a | -e | -i | -o | -u | |||||||||
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