These changes were thought to be in line with changes in thinking about language transfer in general, such as the migration of the Greeks into Greece ( between 2100 and 1600 BC ) and their adoption of a syllabic script, Linear B, from the pre-existing Linear A, with the purpose of writing Mycenaean Greek, or the Indo-Europeanization of Western Europe ( in stages between 2200 and 1300 BC ).
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A literacy study on children without reading disabilities found that syllabic scripts like Japanese katakana and hiragana, which are very transparent orthographically, are learned more quickly and with better proficiency than more orthographically opaque languages, followed in ease of use and learning by shallow alphabetic scripts that also have many phonological cues, then by complex alphabetic scripts that have irregular orthography ( like English ), and then by logographic scripts like kanji which have no phonological cues.
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The olive tree is native to the Mediterranean basin; wild olives were collected by Neolithic peoples as early as the 8th millennium BC . The wild olive tree originated in Asia Minor or in ancient Greece . ( " elaion " ), is first attested in the Mycenaean Greek forms, " e-ra-wo " and, " e-rai-wo ", written in the Linear B syllabic script.
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The Cypriot syllabic script was first used in early phases of the late Bronze Age ( LCIB ) and continued in use for ca . 500 years into the LC IIIB, maybe up to the second half of the eleventh century BC . Most scholars believe it was used for a native Cypriot language ( Eteocypriot ) that survived until the 4th century BC, but the actual proofs for this are scant, as the tablets still have not been completely deciphered.
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These, and "-h ", could occur before vowels, but were written with the final shape regardless . ( "-L " and "-r " are now written the size of full letters when they occur before vowels, as the finals were originally, or in some syllabics scripts have been replaced with full rotating syllabic forms; "-h " only occurs before a vowel in joined morphemes and in a couple grammatical words .)
