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Eteocypriot was a pre-Indo-European language spoken in Iron Age Cyprus. The name means "true" or "original Cyprian" parallel to Eteocretan, both of which names are used by modern scholarship to mean the pre-Greek languages of those places.〔The derivation is given in Partridge, Eric (1983) ''Origins: A short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English'', New York: Greenwich House, ISBN 0-517-41425-2. The term Eteocypriot was devised by Friedrich in 1932, according to Olivier Masson in ''(ETEO-CYPRIOT )'', an article in Zbornik, Issues 4–5, 2002–2003. Eteocretan is based on a genuine Ancient Greek word.〕 Eteocypriot was written in the Cypriot syllabary, a syllabic script derived from Linear A (via the Cypro-Minoan variant Linear C). The language was under pressure from Arcadocypriot Greek from about the 10th century BC and finally became extinct in about the 4th century BC. The language is as yet unknown except for a small vocabulary attested in bilingual inscriptions. Such topics as syntax and possible inflection or agglutination remain a mystery. Partial translations depend to a large extent on the language or language group assumed by the translator, but there is no consistency. It is conjectured by some linguists to be related to the Etruscan and Lemnian languages, and by others to be Northwest Semitic. Those who do not advocate any of those theories often adopt the default of an unknown pre-Greek language. Due to the small number of texts found, there is currently much unproven speculation. == The corpus == Several hundred inscriptions written in the Cypriot syllabary (VI-III BC) cannot be interpreted in Greek. While it does not necessarily imply that all of them are non-Greek, there are at least two locations where multiple inscriptions with clearly non-Greek content were found: * Amathus (including a bilingual Eteocypriot-Greek text) * a few short inscriptions from Golgoi (currently Athienou: Markus Egetmeyer suggested that their language may be different from those of Amathus〔M. Egetmeyer, ‘„Sprechen Sie Golgisch?“ Anmerkungen zu einer übersehenen Sprache’ (Études mycéniennes 2010: 427-434 )〕). While the language of Cypro-Minoan inscriptions is often supposed to be the same as (or ancestral to) Eteocypriot, it has yet to be proved, as this script is only partly legible. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eteocypriot language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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