Linear B

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A syllabary used to write Mycenaean Greek in the second millennium BC, before the invention of the Greek alphabet.

Word forms

Linear B

Etymology

Named by British archaeologist Arthur Evans, to distinguish it from the other linear script, Linear A.

Related words

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