See also: Linear B Ideograms (Unicode block), Linear A (Unicode block), and Aegean Numbers (Unicode block)
Unicode character block
Linear B Syllabary
Range
U+10000..U+1007F (128 code points)
Plane
SMP
Scripts
Linear B
Major alphabets
Linear B Greek
Assigned
88 code points
Unused
40 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.0 (2003)
88 (+88)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
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Linear B Syllabary is a Unicode block containing characters for the syllabic writing of Mycenaean Greek.
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record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the LinearBSyllabary block: "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved...
from the earlier Linear A, an undeciphered script potentially used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded...
thought that the Cypriot syllabary is derived from the Cypro-Minoan syllabary; the latter is thought to be derived from the Linear A script, and certainly...
writing Mycenaean Greek. Several LinearB ideographs double as syllabic letters, and are encoded in the LinearBSyllabary block. The following Unicode-related...
languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words. A symbol in a syllabary, called...
in the LinearBsyllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek. Wikimedia Commons has media related to LinearB and Mycenaean...
does generally hold in Linear A. One reason is that is already known to hold in many cases between LinearB and the Cypriot syllabary, another script which...
the Cretan hieroglyphs and later in the Linear A syllabary. As the Cretan hieroglyphs are undeciphered and Linear A only partly deciphered, the Minoan language...
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known Greek writings are Mycenaean (c. 1600–1100 BC), written in the LinearBsyllabary on clay tablets. These documents contain prosaic records largely concerned...
Archaeans led by Thesius, until it was proven by Michael Ventris that the LinearBsyllabary was a form of early Greek language. The destruction of the cities...
sounds that did not exist in Phoenician to represent vowels. The LinearBsyllabary, used by Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BCE, had 87 symbols...
first known script for writing Greek was the LinearBsyllabary, used for the archaic Mycenaean dialect. LinearB was not deciphered until 1953. After the...
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considered a logography rather than a syllabary. Other languages that use true syllabaries include Mycenaean Greek (LinearB) and Indigenous languages of the...
The earliest known Greek writings are Mycenaean, written in the LinearBsyllabary on clay tablets. These documents contain prosaic records largely concerned...
planes 15 (Fhex) and 16 (10hex), called Supplementary Private Use Area-A and -B (§ PUA-A) The Unicode Stability Policy requires that a character, once assigned...
previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as LinearB and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in...
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