Abstract
The symbols of both Linear B1 and the Cypriot Syllabary are primarily of two types: those with the value V, i.e. those which represent a simple vowel or a diphthong; and those with the value CV, i.e. those which represent a sequence of a consonant followed by a vowel. There are, in addition, in Linear B, a very few symbols of the form CCV: namely, pte, twe, two, dwe, dwo, nwa, and perhaps swa and swi. Furthermore, in the Cypriot Syllabary, kse and ksa occur.2 A script which has for the most part only V and CV characters is quite suitable for the graphic representation of a language which is phonotactically constrained in such a way that consonant clusters and word-final closed syllables are disallowed. Since Greek is a language rich in consonant clusters and closed syllables, Linear B and the Cypriot Syllabary are both rather illsuited for graphically representing this language.
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Woodard, R.D. (1994). On the Interaction of Greek Orthography and Phonology: Consonant Clusters in the Syllabic Scripts. In: Watt, W.C. (eds) Writing Systems and Cognition. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8285-8_15
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