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Linear B

A system of writing found on clay tablets at Mycenaean palace sites. Deciphered in the 1950s by Michael Ventris, it is (unlike Linear A) an early form of Greek.

Linear B
Type: Syllabic with additional logographic signs
Languages: Mycenaean
Time period:
Parent writing systems: Perhaps Linear A
Linear B
Unicode range: U+10000–U+1007F syllabic signs
U+10080–U+100FF logograms
ISO 15924 code: Linb
 

-a -e -i -o -u
linen - Flax fiber, Linguistic note [next] [back] Linear A

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