Linear B Syllabary is a Unicode block containing characters for the syllabic writing of Mycenaean Greek. Another block containing Linear B Ideograms.

Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland, Crete and Cyprus in the 16th to 12th centuries BC, before the hypothesised Dorian invasion which was often cited as the terminus post quem for the coming of the Greek language to Greece. The language is preserved in inscriptions in Linear B, a script first attested on Crete before the 14th century BC. Most instances of these inscriptions are on clay tablets found in Knossos in central Crete, and in Pylos in the southwest of the Peloponnese. Other tablets have been found at Mycenae itself, Tiryns and Thebes and at Chania in Western Crete. The language is named after Mycenae, one of the major centres of Mycenaean Greece.

The tablets remained long undeciphered, and every conceivable language was suggested for them, until Michael Ventris deciphered the script in 1952 and by a preponderance of evidence proved the language to be an early form of Greek.

The texts on the tablets are mostly lists and inventories. No prose narrative survives, much less myth or poetry. Still, much may be glimpsed from these records about the people who produced them and about Mycenaean Greece, the period before the so-called Greek Dark Ages.

Properties

Range 10000–1007F
Characters 128

List of Characters

  • Basic syllables

  • 𐀀
    Linear B Syllable B008 A
  • 𐀁
    Linear B Syllable B038 E
  • 𐀂
    Linear B Syllable B028 I
  • 𐀃
    Linear B Syllable B061 O
  • 𐀄
    Linear B Syllable B010 U
  • 𐀅
    Linear B Syllable B001 Da
  • 𐀆
    Linear B Syllable B045 De
  • 𐀇
    Linear B Syllable B007 Di
  • 𐀈
    Linear B Syllable B014 Do
  • 𐀉
    Linear B Syllable B051 Du
  • 𐀊
    Linear B Syllable B057 Ja
  • 𐀋
    Linear B Syllable B046 Je
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  • 𐀍
    Linear B Syllable B036 Jo
  • 𐀎
    Linear B Syllable B065 Ju
  • 𐀏
    Linear B Syllable B077 Ka
  • 𐀐
    Linear B Syllable B044 Ke
  • 𐀑
    Linear B Syllable B067 Ki
  • 𐀒
    Linear B Syllable B070 Ko
  • 𐀓
    Linear B Syllable B081 Ku
  • 𐀔
    Linear B Syllable B080 Ma
  • 𐀕
    Linear B Syllable B013 Me
  • 𐀖
    Linear B Syllable B073 Mi
  • 𐀗
    Linear B Syllable B015 Mo
  • 𐀘
    Linear B Syllable B023 Mu
  • 𐀙
    Linear B Syllable B006 Na
  • 𐀚
    Linear B Syllable B024 Ne
  • 𐀛
    Linear B Syllable B030 Ni
  • 𐀜
    Linear B Syllable B052 No
  • 𐀝
    Linear B Syllable B055 Nu
  • 𐀞
    Linear B Syllable B003 Pa
  • 𐀟
    Linear B Syllable B072 Pe
  • 𐀠
    Linear B Syllable B039 Pi
  • 𐀡
    Linear B Syllable B011 Po
  • 𐀢
    Linear B Syllable B050 Pu
  • 𐀣
    Linear B Syllable B016 Qa
  • 𐀤
    Linear B Syllable B078 Qe
  • 𐀥
    Linear B Syllable B021 Qi
  • 𐀦
    Linear B Syllable B032 Qo
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  • 𐀨
    Linear B Syllable B060 Ra
  • 𐀩
    Linear B Syllable B027 Re
  • 𐀪
    Linear B Syllable B053 Ri
  • 𐀫
    Linear B Syllable B002 Ro
  • 𐀬
    Linear B Syllable B026 Ru
  • 𐀭
    Linear B Syllable B031 Sa
  • 𐀮
    Linear B Syllable B009 Se
  • 𐀯
    Linear B Syllable B041 Si
  • 𐀰
    Linear B Syllable B012 So
  • 𐀱
    Linear B Syllable B058 Su
  • 𐀲
    Linear B Syllable B059 Ta
  • 𐀳
    Linear B Syllable B004 Te
  • 𐀴
    Linear B Syllable B037 Ti
  • 𐀵
    Linear B Syllable B005 To
  • 𐀶
    Linear B Syllable B069 Tu
  • 𐀷
    Linear B Syllable B054 Wa
  • 𐀸
    Linear B Syllable B075 We
  • 𐀹
    Linear B Syllable B040 Wi
  • 𐀺
    Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
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  • 𐀼
    Linear B Syllable B017 Za
  • 𐀽
    Linear B Syllable B074 Ze
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  • 𐀿
    Linear B Syllable B020 Zo
  • Supplementary signs

  • 𐁀
    Linear B Syllable B025 A2
  • 𐁁
    Linear B Syllable B043 A3
  • 𐁂
    Linear B Syllable B085 Au
  • 𐁃
    Linear B Syllable B071 Dwe
  • 𐁄
    Linear B Syllable B090 Dwo
  • 𐁅
    Linear B Syllable B048 Nwa
  • 𐁆
    Linear B Syllable B029 Pu2
  • 𐁇
    Linear B Syllable B062 Pte
  • 𐁈
    Linear B Syllable B076 Ra2
  • 𐁉
    Linear B Syllable B033 Ra3
  • 𐁊
    Linear B Syllable B068 Ro2
  • 𐁋
    Linear B Syllable B066 Ta2
  • 𐁌
    Linear B Syllable B087 Twe
  • 𐁍
    Linear B Syllable B091 Two
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  • Symbols

  • 𐁐
    Linear B Symbol B018
  • 𐁑
    Linear B Symbol B019
  • 𐁒
    Linear B Symbol B022
  • 𐁓
    Linear B Symbol B034
  • 𐁔
    Linear B Symbol B047
  • 𐁕
    Linear B Symbol B049
  • 𐁖
    Linear B Symbol B056
  • 𐁗
    Linear B Symbol B063
  • 𐁘
    Linear B Symbol B064
  • 𐁙
    Linear B Symbol B079
  • 𐁚
    Linear B Symbol B082
  • 𐁛
    Linear B Symbol B083
  • 𐁜
    Linear B Symbol B086
  • 𐁝
    Linear B Symbol B089
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  • 𐁐
    Linear B Symbol B018
  • 𐁑
    Linear B Symbol B019
  • 𐁒
    Linear B Symbol B022
  • 𐁓
    Linear B Symbol B034
  • 𐁔
    Linear B Symbol B047
  • 𐁕
    Linear B Symbol B049
  • 𐁖
    Linear B Symbol B056
  • 𐁗
    Linear B Symbol B063
  • 𐁘
    Linear B Symbol B064
  • 𐁙
    Linear B Symbol B079
  • 𐁚
    Linear B Symbol B082
  • 𐁛
    Linear B Symbol B083
  • 𐁜
    Linear B Symbol B086
  • 𐁝
    Linear B Symbol B089
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