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Eteocretan language

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or Epioi inscription as Eteocretan, but some scholars deem it to be a modern forgery. They base their assessment on the fact that the inscription has five words, which bear no obvious resemblance to the language of the Dreros and Praisos inscriptions, apparently written in the Ionic alphabet of the
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Guarducci included three other fragmentary inscriptions; two of these fragments were also discussed by Yves Duhoux. The latter also discussed several other fragmentary inscriptions which might be Eteocretan. All these inscriptions, however, are so very fragmentary that it really is not possible to
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The longer of these two inscriptions was found in the autumn of 1936 but not published until 1946. The Greek part of the text is very worn and could not easily be read. Almost certainly with modern technology the Greek part would yield more but the inscription was lost during the occupation of the
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which is still written in the archaic Cretan style; it probably dates from the 4th century BC. The third inscription, dating probably from the 3rd century BC, is written in the standard Ionic alphabet with the addition of
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The earliest of these inscriptions is, like the Dreros one, written in the archaic Cretan alphabet and likewise dates from the late 7th or early 6th century BC. The second of the Praisos inscriptions is written in the
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Also, Van Effenterree noted that the word τυρό(ν) ("cheese") seems to occur twice in the Greek part of the first Dreros bilingual and suggested the text concerned the offering of goat cheese to
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and date from the late seventh or early sixth century BC. They record official religious and political decisions and probably came from the east wall of the Delphinion; they were published by
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third century BC, with the addition of three symbols which resemble the Linear A script of more than a millennium earlier. Their reasoning has since been challenged as unsubstantiated.
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The early inscriptions written in the archaic Cretan alphabet do mark word division; the same goes for the two longer inscriptions from the fourth and third centuries BC.
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The two bilingual inscriptions, together with six other Greek inscriptions, were found in the western part of the large Hellenistic cistern next to the east wall of the
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inscriptions of a millennium earlier. Since that language remains undeciphered, it is not certain that Eteocretan and Minoan are related, although this is very likely.
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The other Dreros inscription was also published by Van Effenterre in 1946. The Eteocretan part of the text has disappeared, only the fragment τυπρμηριηια (
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Papakitsos, Evangelos and Kenanidis, Ioannis, "The Eteocretan Inscription from Psychro (Crete) is Genuine", Anistoriton Journal, vol. 14 (2014-2015).
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The other two Praisos inscriptions do not show word breaks. It has, however, been noted that in the second line of the fourth century inscription is
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seem to show that /n/ and /l/ could be syllabic. As to the meanings of the words, nothing can be said with any certainty. Van Effenterre suggested:
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While Eteocretan is possibly descended from the Minoan language of the Linear A inscriptions of a millennium earlier, until there is an accepted
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with Greek. Three more fragments may be Eteocretan. The Eteocretan corpus is documented and discussed in Duhoux's
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Indeed, more than half the known Eteocretan texts are from Praisos (Strabo's Πρᾶσος); the others were found at
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Of them Staphylos says that the Dorians occupy the region towards the east, the Kydones the western part, the
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is sometimes applied to the Minoan language (or languages) written more than a millennium earlier in so-called
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Ancient testimony suggests that the language is that of the Eteocretans (meaning 'true Cretans'). The term
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languages; the language appears to have no obvious relation to any other known ancient language of the
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In eastern Crete, about half a dozen inscriptions have been found, which, though written in
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the southern, whose town is Prasos, where the temple of Diktaian Zeus is; and that the
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Though meager, the inscriptions show a language that bears no obvious kinship to
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Opyt sravnitel'nogo opisaniya minoyskogo, etrusskogo i rodstvennyh im yazykov
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noted the following about the settlement of the different 'tribes' of Crete:
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Mellaart, James (1975), "The Neolithic of the Near East" (Thames and Hudson)
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Tentative Comparative Description of Minoan, Etruscan and Related Languages
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The inscriptions are too few to give much information about the language.
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The only clearly complete word on the earliest Praisos inscription is
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There are five inscriptions which are clearly Eteocretan, two of them
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Evidence for pre-Greek speech on Crete from Greek alphabetic sources.
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Evidence for pre-Greek speech on Crete from Greek alphabetic sources.
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The other three certain Eteocretan inscriptions were published by
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The "Bilingual" inscription from Psychro (Crete). A coup de grâce
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Raymond A. Brown, "The Eteocretan Inscription from Psychro," in
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Creta Minoica: Sulle tracce delle più antiche scritture d'Europa
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and Kydones are probably indigenous, but the others incomers,
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There is a land called Crete in the midst of the wine-dark sea,
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Minoica: Festschrift zum 80. Geburstag von Johannes Sundwall
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were related words with the meaning of "(goat) cheese".
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From the Dreros inscriptions are the following words:
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Language with language is mingled together. There are
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state with any certainty that they may not be Greek.
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a beautiful and fertile land, seagirt; in it are many
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"true Cretans", itself composed from ἐτεός 358:people, innumerable, and there are ninety cities. 512:Inscriptiones Creticae, Tituli Cretae Orientalis 475:in 1937 and 1946 and were kept in the museum at 913:Spyridon Marinatos, "Γραμμάτων διδασκάλια", in 339:ἄλλη δ' ἄλλων γλῶσσα μεμιγμένη· ἐν μὲν Ἀχαιοί, 1194: 632:, and there is no indication of its meaning. 8: 2038:Families with more than 30 languages are in 1030:Facchetti, Giulio M.; Negri, Mario (2003). 821: 819: 817: 335:καλὴ καὶ πίειρα, περίρρυτος· ἐν δ' ἄνθρωποι 2093:Languages attested from the 7th century BC 1743: 1651: 1201: 1187: 1179: 333:Κρήτη τις γαῖ' ἔστι μέσῳ ἐνὶ οἴνοπι πόντῳ, 34: 25: 1117:, vol. 17, issue 1 (1978), p. 43 ff. 453:L'Étéocrétois: les textes—la langue 337:πολλοί, ἀπειρέσιοι, καὶ ἐννήκοντα πόληες. 1020:Adolf M. 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1495:Sino-Tibetan 1493: 1486: 1479: 1447: 1422: 1415: 1408: 1401: 1394: 1387: 1380: 1373: 1366: 1359: 1352: 1332: 1325: 1319: 1318: 1311: 1304: 1299:North Picene 1297: 1290: 1283: 1276: 1269: 1262: 1255: 1243: 1236: 1229: 1149: 1142: 1135: 1128: 1121: 1114: 1097: 1092: 1083: 1064: 1059: 1052: 1032: 1025: 1017: 1012: 1004: 999: 994:, pp. 80–85. 991: 986: 974:. 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Index

Minoan
photograph of the earliest Eteocretan inscription from Praisos
Dreros
Praisos
Crete
Language family
unclassified
Minoan
Writing system
Greek alphabet
ISO 639-3
ecr
Linguist List
ecr
Glottolog
eteo1236
/ˌtiˈkrtən,ˌɛt-/
Greek
translit.
pre-Greek
alphabetic
Crete
Greek alphabets
Minoan language
Linear A
Cretan 'hieroglyphics'
Odysseus
Akhaians
Kydones
Dorians

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