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Greek written in syllables.
Also known as: Cypro-syllabic script
The script used on Cyprus to write Greek in syllabic signs rather than in the Greek alphabet.
Writes Greek and an unidentified local language in a syllabary of about fifty-five signs.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Wrote Greek in syllables alongside the alphabet's spread everywhere else, which forced spellings that cannot represent consonant clusters directly — the same language written two structurally different ways at the same period.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Some fifty-five angular signs of straight strokes, each standing for a syllable, written right to left.