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Arcadocypriot Greek | ||||
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Region | Arcadia, Cyprus | |||
Era | c. 1300 – c. 300[citation needed] BC | |||
Indo-European
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Early forms | Proto-Greek
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Greek alphabet Cypriot syllabary | ||||
Language codes | ||||
ISO 639-3 | – | |||
grc-arc | ||||
Glottolog | arca1234 | |||
![]() Distribution of Greek dialects in Greece in the classical period.[1]
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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.
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