# Eteocypriot continues the language of Cypro-Minoan

> Still possible: Eteocypriot is the Iron Age survival of the language, or one of the languages, written in Bronze Age Cypro-Minoan.

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# Eteocypriot continues the language of Cypro-Minoan

Eteocypriot is the Iron Age survival of the language, or one of the languages, written in Bronze Age Cypro-Minoan.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Once Cypro-Minoan values are fixed independently, sequences matching Eteocypriot -o-ti and -o-ko-o- will recur in the Cypriot Cypro-Minoan texts above chance.
- Personal names in the Enkomi and Kalavasos texts will share formation patterns with Amathusian names.

## What would rule it out

- Consistent Cypro-Minoan values yield sequences that never match Eteocypriot forms.
- The Eteocypriot language is identified with an outside family absent from Bronze Age Cyprus.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[The Cypriot syllabary descends from Cypro-Minoan on the same island, and Duhoux finds Eteocypriot endings comparable…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/evidence/EVD0DEEDGHRSTGB/the-cypriot-syllabary-descends-from-cypro-minoan-on-the-same)

Suggestive

FOR

[Cypro-Minoan sign values are not secure enough to test the comparison, so the proposed matches cannot yet be…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/evidence/EVD0DEEDGMRDSQS/cypro-minoan-sign-values-are-not-secure-enough-to-test-the)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What language do the Eteocypriot inscriptions of Amathus record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8TY5JS3/what-language-do-the-eteocypriot-inscriptions-of-amathus)

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## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Eteocypriot continues the language of Cypro-Minoan [Answer ANS0DEECG02EJN2]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DEECG02EJN2
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