💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Linear a"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| linear bnoun | (archaeology, linguistics) A syllabary used to write Mycenaean Greek in the second millennium BC, before the invention of the Greek alphabet. |
| minoannoun | Of or relating to the civilization that developed in Crete from the neolithic period to the Bronze Age (about 3000-1050 B.C.E.). |
| mycenaean greeknoun | The most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th to 11th centuries BC, written in Linear B script. |
| archaic egyptiannoun | (linguistics, history) The Egyptian language as written and spoken during the Early Dynastic Period, before the time of the earliest attested complete sentences. |
| lemniannoun | Of or pertaining to the island of Lemnos. |
| classical languagenoun | (literature, linguistics) An ancient language that has an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own, and has a large and rich body of ancient literature. |
| greek alphabetnoun | The 24-letter alphabet of the Greek language, first adopted by Athens in 403 BC and now consisting of the following upper- (majuscule) and lower-case (minuscule) pairs: |
| mycenaeannoun | Of or relating to the early Greek civilization that spread its influence from Mycenae to many parts of the Mediterranean region and Central Europe from about 2800 to 1100 B.C.E., divided into three periods: Early Helladic (c. 2800–2000 B.C.E), Middle Helladic (c. 2000–1500 B.C.E), and Late Helladic (c. 1500–1100 B.C.E) |
| constructed languagenoun | (linguistics) A human language that has been consciously devised by an individual or a group, as opposed to having naturally evolved as part of a culture like a natural language. |
| archaeolinguisticsnoun | The study of the distant human past using archaeological and linguistic evidence together to reconstruct aspects of past cultures. |
| elymiannoun | (historical) Any member of a people who inhabited western Sicily during the Bronze Age and Classical antiquity. |
| proto-sinaiticnoun | An ancient script found in a small corpus of about 40 inscriptions and fragments dating to the Middle Bronze Age, the vast majority from Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula. It is considered the earliest trace of alphabetic writing and the common ancestor of both the Ancient South Arabian script and the Phoenician alphabet. |
| aramaeogramnoun | Alternative spelling of Arameogram [(linguistics) The spelling of an Aramaic word employed as a logogram to represent another word in another language when writing this language, such as Middle Persian.] |
| eteocretannoun | A pre-Greek language attested in a few alphabetic inscriptions of ancient Crete. |
| proto-italicnoun | Hypothetical prehistoric Indo-European language, ancestor of all Italic languages. |
| liasnoun | A type of blue limestone present in parts of southern England and Wales. |
| aeolismnoun | (uncountable) A fictional religion in the works of Jonathan Swift that worships the wind in general, and rhetorical form over substance in particular. |
| paleolinguisticsnoun | The study of prehistoric languages using linguistic evidence alone to try to reconstruct them. |
| late greeknoun | The Greek language as written in Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine period, i.e. from about the late 2nd century AD until about the late 7th century AD. |
| proto-greeknoun | The earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenaean and the classical Greek dialects. |
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