Arcadocypriot Greek

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Arcadocypriot Greek
Region	Arcadia, Cyprus
Era	c. 1300 – c. 300[citation needed] BC
Language family	Indo-European Hellenic Ancient Greek Central Arcadocypriot Greek
Early forms	Proto-Greek Achaean Proto-Arcado-Cypriot
Writing system	Greek alphabet Cypriot syllabary
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	grc-arc
Glottolog	arca1234
Distribution of Greek dialects in Greece in the classical period.[1] Western group:   Doric proper   Northwest Doric   Achaean Doric (probably Northwest Doric) Central group:   Aeolic   Arcado-Cypriot Eastern group:   Attic   Ionic

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, indicates that they are closely related to it, and belong to the same dialect group, known as Achaean.^[2]

In Cyprus the dialect was written using solely the Cypriot syllabary. The most extensive surviving text of the dialect is the Idalion Tablet.^[3] A significant literary source on the vocabulary comes from the lexicon of 5th century AD grammarian Hesychius.