Linear A and B Script is the Greeks’ writing system from 5500 B.C. until 500 B.C..
The first writing monuments concern illustrating art on petroglyphs.
Through either monochrome or colourful petroglyphs, the inscriber depicts his everyday life. This illustrating writing system provides information about the fauna and flora of that time.
What follows is the pictograms. Through a sequence of pictures, the inscriber records his life, as well as his achievements. It is an illustrating writing system about human inventions.
The ideograms are a writing system with pictures. It is called Linear A Script and it was created by the need to communicate from a long distance.
Later on, the Minoans and the Mycenaeans, transformed the ideograms to notations, in order to create the Minoan Hieroglyphics. A sample of this is the Phaistos Disc, where notations are illustrations rendering sounds.
Then, these notations are substituted by a system of linear characters. This system was called Linear B Script by Arthur Evans.
Some years later, Michael Ventris and John Chadwick published a research about texts of Linear A and B Script. Linear A and B Script are Greek Discourse.
Ancestral Heritage
The texts follow the grammatical rules of Homer’s Epics.
Some of these rules were lost across time and they were not applied in the texts of the Greek Classical Literature.
Nowadays, these rules are orally used in the Pontic Dialect, as well as in the Doric Macedonian Local Dialect. Authentic words of the time are also used. The discourse mostly has no suffixes.
The rules of the writing of the texts are classified in four groups:
- The rules applied in the Classical
- The rules continuing to be applied in the Pontic
- The rules applied in the Doric Macedonian
- The Rules of the Consonantal Script