Arcadocypriot Greek

Arcadocypriot Greek
Arcadocypriot Greek
Region	Arcadia, Cyprus
Era	c. 1200 – 300 BC
Language family	Indo-European Hellenic Ancient Greek Central Arcadocypriot Greek; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Greek Mycenaean Greek ;
Writing system	Greek alphabet; Cypriot syllabary
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	grc-arc
Glottolog	arca1234

Arcadocypriot, or southern Achaean, was an ancient Greek dialect spoken in Arcadia in the central Peloponnese and in Cyprus. Its resemblance to Mycenaean Greek, as it is known from the Linear B corpus, suggests that Arcadocypriot is its descendant.

In Cyprus the dialect was written using solely the Cypriot Syllabary. The most extensive surviving text of the dialect is the Idalion Tablet. A significant literary source on the vocabulary comes from the lexicon of 5th century AD grammarian Hesychius.

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