Arcadocypriot
Arcadocypriot was an ancient
Greek dialect spoken in
Arcadia and
Cyprus between ca. the
7th and
4th centuries BC. It is directly descended from
Mycenaean Greek, being spoken in areas where the Mycenaean population retreated from the
Dorian invasion. The dialect is only known from inscriptions. In Cyprus, it was written using the
Cypriot syllabary.
Tsan was a letter only in use in Arcadia, up to ca. the 6th century BC.
Arcadocypriot kept a lot of characteristics of Mycenaean lost in other classical Greek dialects, such as the /w/ sound (
digamma).
