Utube pronunciation of Linear B! You have to check this out if you want to know how to pronounce Linear B! This Utube video is just amazing!
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The ancient Greek alphabetical numeric system:This chart illustrates both the ancient Greek acrophonic and alphabetical numeric systems. However, the acrophonic system, used primarily in Classical Athens ca. 500 – 400 BCE, came much later than the alphabetical system. So in effect we must resort to the only Greek numeric system we can use to represent numbers in Mycenaean Greek numbers, i.e. the alphabetical system. The alphabetical numbers are displayed in the second column after the modern numbers, 1 – 100,000 in the following chart. Here are some examples of alphabetic numbers representing Mycenaean numbers:
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Translation of Linear B tablet KN 525 R l 24 by Rita RobertsIt is to be noted that the supersyllabogram TE, which appears in the text tagged 2. refers to the Linear B word TETUKUOWA = tetu/xu #oa, which literally translated means “well prepared” or “ready”, in other words “finished” cloth or textile, in this case “finished wool”.
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Summer haiku - Knossos by the sea = Knossos au bord de la mer in Linear B, ancient Greek, English and FrenchKonoso para tarasa anemoiereya Knwsso/j para_ qa&ssash] a21nemou i'e/ria Knossos by the sea Priestess of the winds Knossos au bord de la mer prêtresse des vents Richard Vallance
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Rule 10b: Converting Linear B to Greek: Q series of syllabograms to Greek p & Rule 10c: Converting Linear B to Greek: Q series of syllabograms to Greek b:
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summer haiku d’ été − saffron goddess = déesse du safran saffron goddess arrayed in white moiré in her sanctuarydéesse du safran habillée en blanc moiré dans son sanctuaire Richard Vallance
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winter haiku in Mycenaean Linear B, ancient Greek, English and French, snow on the summit, with the English version below and all of the other languages on the haiku image of the mountain and the church: snow on the summit of a Cretan mountain − a churchRichard Vallance REPOST from 2017
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The ancient Greek alphabet with Linear B equivalents where they exist:Here we find the table of the ancient Greek alphabet including the archaic letter # (digamma), pronounced “wau” as in “wow!” It is clear from this table that many ancient Greek letters have no exact Linear B equivalents. However, even these Greek letters can be replaced by Linear B syllabograms, which we shall introduce later.
