series in Linear A and B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary', Pasiphae 8 (2014), 189-96. (original) (raw)

Abstract

Of the Aegean syllabic scripts (Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary), the two deciphered scripts (Linear B and the Cypriot Syllabary) are both used to record the Greek language at different stages. However, they show different treatments of two key areas of the Greek phonological repertoire: Linear B distinguishes voicing in just one series of stops, the dentals (/d/ and /t/), while the Cypriot Syllabary never distinguishes voicing; and Linear B does not distinguish graphically between the liquids /l/ and /r/ while the Cypriot Syllabary has two separate series of signs for them. This paper considers the methods employed to attempt to explain the above discrepancies, which often involve assumptions about the phonological repertoires of languages underlying the undeciphered Aegean syllabic scripts (especially Linear A and Cypro-Minoan), and suggests a new approach based on a survey of both sign forms and sign values across the scripts.

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