The Proto-Sinatic or Proto Canaanite script and the Ugaritic script were the first scripts with limited number of signs, in contrast to the other widely used writing systems at the time, Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Linear B.

The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.

The earliest attested name is the Hittite Assuwa a region in central-western Anatolia which seems to be connected with the Mycenean Greek epithet a-si-wi-ja in Linear B inscriptions found at Pylos.

" Appendix One: Linear B Sources.

The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek feminine noun a-re-ka-sa-da-ra ( transliterated as Alexandra ), written in Linear B syllabic script.

However the exact relationship of the term Ahhiyawa to the Achaeans beyond a similarity in pronunciation is hotly debated by scholars, even following the discovery that Mycenaean Linear B is an early form of Greek ; the earlier debate was summed up in 1984 by Hans G. Güterbock of the Oriental Institute.

" The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek a-re, written in Linear B syllabic script.

* 1900 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.

It is thus the first site where the archaeology confirms the continuity of Mycenaean and Classical Greek religion, which has been inferred from the presence of the names of Classical Greek divinities on Linear B texts from Pylos and Knossos.

The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek a-re-ka-sa-da-ra, written in Linear B syllabic script.

These show a number of systems of script employing either ideograms or syllabograms ( see Linear B ).

While connection with Anatolian names has been suggested, the earliest attested forms of the name Artemis are the Mycenaean Greek a-te-mi-to and a-ti-mi-te, written in Linear B at Pylos.

According to archaeological evidence, cultures in Egypt ( hieroglyphs ), the Near East ( cuneiform )— and the Mediterranean, with the Mycenaean culture ( Linear B )— had viable writing systems.

The earliest attested form of the word κύμινον ( kuminon ) is the Mycenaean Greek ku-mi-no, written in Linear B syllabic script.

The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek se-ri-no, written in Linear B syllabic script.

The Mycenaean Greek name for Crete is unknown ; it is not mentioned in extant Linear B texts.

In the Linear B Mycenean Greek tablets of circa 1400-1200 BC found at Pylos, the " two mistresses and the king " are identified with Demeter, Persephone and Poseidon.

The earliest attested form of Demeter's name is Da-ma-te, written in Linear B ( Mycenean Greek ).

This root also appears in the Linear B inscription E-ne-si-da-o-ne, " earth-shaker ", as an aspect of the god Poseidon.

* Linear B

* Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, decipherers of the Linear B

The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek e-re-pa-to, written in Linear B syllabic script.

The idea of a relation between the language of the Aegean Linear scripts was taken into consideration as the main hypothesis by Michael Ventris before discovering that in fact the language behind the more modern Linear B script was Mycenean, a Greek dialect.

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The simplest approach to decipherment may be to presume that the values of Linear A match more or less the values given to the fully translated Linear B script, used for Mycenean Greek.

This overturned Evans ' theories of Minoan history by establishing that Cretan civilization, at least in the later periods associated with the Linear B tablets, had been part of Mycenean Greece.

The earliest attested occurrence of the name, written in Linear B, is Po-se-da-o or Po-se-da-wo-ne, which correspond to Poseidaōn and Poseidawonos in Mycenean Greek ; in Homeric Greek it appears as ( Poseidaōn ); in Aeolic as ( Poteidaōn ); and in Doric as ( Poteidan ), ( Poteidaōn ), and ( Poteidas ).

Linear B tablets recovered from the site by Blegen clearly demonstrate that the site was called Pylos ( Mycenaean Greek: Pulos, Linear B: Pu-ro ) by its Mycenean inhabitants.

His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500 — 1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete.

In the Linear B ( Mycenean Greek ) script a symbol similar to a double-axe represents the phonetic sign a.

Thus, on the Mycenean Linear B tablets found at Pylos, the name Poseidon occurs frequently in connection with the wanax (" king "), whose power and wealth were increasingly maritime rather than equestrian in nature.

The name of the state translated as " Alashiya " is found on texts written in Egyptian, Hittite, Akkadian, Mycenean ( Linear B ) and Ugaritic.

That year he began working with Ventris on the progressive decipherment of Linear B, the two writing Documents in Mycenean Greek in 1956, following a controversial first paper three years earlier.

After Ventris's death, Chadwick became the figurehead of the Linear B work, writing the accessible and popular book The Decipherment of Linear B in 1958 and revising Documents in Mycenean Greek in 1978.

After the deity's name was discovered on Mycenean Linear B tablets, however, this theory was abandoned and the cult is considered indigenous, predating Greek civilization.

The first migration resulted in Mycenean Greek, an archaic Greek language which appears in Linear B syllabic inscriptions and the second resulted in the Dorian dialect which displaced the Arcadocypriot dialect that seems to be closest to the Mycenean Greek.

The earliest mention of the root " ceram -" is the Mycenaean Greek ke-ra-me-we, " workers of ceramics ", written in Linear b syllabic script.

Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history ; other systems, such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary, were previously used.

The earliest written evidence is found in the Linear B clay tablets in the " Room of the Chariot Tablets ", an LMIII A-context ( c. 1400 BC ) region of Knossos, in Crete, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living languages.

Linear B was the first script used to write Mycenaean Greek.

Attested as early as the late 15th century BC, it is the earliest known form of Greek ( its precursor, Linear A, has not been deciphered to this day ).

Another similar system used to write the Greek language was the Cypriot syllabary ( also a descendant of Linear A via the intermediate Cypro-Minoan syllabary ), which is closely related to Linear B but uses somewhat different syllabic conventions to represent phoneme sequences.

Linear A is one of two scripts used in ancient Crete before Mycenaean Greek Linear B ; Cretan hieroglyphic is the second script.