Eteocypriot is an extinct non-Indo-European language that was spoken in Cyprus by a non-Hellenic population during the Iron Age. The name means "true"...

language (may have been a descendant of Minoan) Eteocypriot language (see also Cypro-Minoan script) Lemnian language[citation needed] (probably related to Etruscan)...

the Etruscan language and Minoan (including Eteocretan and Eteocypriot) is considered unfounded. A relation with the Anatolian languages within Indo-European...

of Minoan, but this is uncertain Cypro-Minoan Eteocypriot may be a descendant of Cypro-Minoan Language of the Phaistos Disc, possibly one of the above...

linguists also argue that Eteocypriot was a Northwest Semitic language spoken in ancient Cyprus.[citation needed] The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook...

non-Greek languages spoken in Crete. Combinatorial method (linguistics) Cretan hieroglyphs Linear A Aegean languages Minoan language Eteocypriot language "Eteocretan"...

and later Byzantine Koine evolved into Cypriot Greek. Eteocypriot was a pre-Indo-European language, indigenous to the island, that competed with Greek following...

potentially broader range of languages, including Semitic (in Ugarit) and the indigenous language(s) of Cyprus, the Eteocypriot language, based on his readings...

These are the extinct languages that were once spoken in the Balkans: Ancient Macedonian Dacian Dalmatian Eteocretan Eteocypriot Illyrian Lemnian Liburnian...

century BC. It is not known if pre-Greek languages survived beyond the Bronze Age as Eteocypriot, or if this language was introduced by later Eastern immigrants...