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Hittite cuneiform — refers to the implementation of cuneiform script used in writing the Hittite language. The surviving corpus of Hittite texts is preserved in cuneiform on clay tablets dates to the 2nd millennium BC (roughly spanning the 17th to 12th centuries).… … Wikipedia
Man'yōgana — 万葉仮名 Type Syllabary Languages Japanese and Okinawan Time period ca 650 CE to ? … Wikipedia
Aegean civilization — is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece and the Aegean. There are in fact three distinct but communicating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term: Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland. Crete is… … Wikipedia
Hiragana — ひらがな Type Syllabary Languages Japanese and Okinawan … Wikipedia
Linear B — Infobox Writing system name=Linear B type=Syllabary typedesc=with additional Logograms time=Late Bronze Age status=Extinct languages=Mycenaean Greek fam1= Linear A sisters=Cypro Minoan syllabary unicode=… … Wikipedia
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Anatolian hieroglyphs — are an indigenous logographic script native to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs. They were once commonly known as Hittite hieroglyphs, but the language they encode proved to be Luwian, not Hittite, and the term Luwian hieroglyphs is … Wikipedia
Cretan hieroglyphs — are hieroglyphs found on artifacts of Bronze Age Minoan Crete (early to mid 2nd millennium BC, MM I to MM III, overlapping with Linear A from MM IIA at the earliest). Symbol inventories have been compiled by Evans (1909), Meijer (1982),… … Wikipedia
Hieroglyphic Luwian — Infobox Language name=Luwian familycolor=Indo European region=Anatolia extinct=around 600 BC fam2=Anatolian iso3=hlu Hieroglyphic Luwian is a variant of the Luwian language, recorded in official and royal seals and a small number of monumental… … Wikipedia
Mesopotamia, history of — ▪ historical region, Asia Introduction history of the region in southwestern Asia where the world s earliest civilization developed. The name comes from a Greek word meaning “between rivers,” referring to the land between the Tigris and… … Universalium
