Cypriot syllabary

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noun

a syllabic script in use on Cyprus in the first millennium b.c., used for the writing of Greek and of an unknown language.

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Cypriot syllabary

Another hypothesis has been lately started, and an attempt made to affiliate the Cypriot syllabary to the as yet little understood hieroglyphic system of the Hittites.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

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