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Where does one believe the name "Minoan" stems from?

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Its name stems from the root as the English (as well as Latin and Greek) word 'copper'. ... Cypro-Minoan, to distinguish it from the Cypriot script used for writing Greek after ... Like Linear B, Cypriot also does not have signs for all the sounds in the ...all consonants except the one nearest to the vowel are represented with CV ...
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