Etymology

Linear B

Today it means: A syllabary used to write Mycenaean Greek in the second millennium BC, before the invention of the Greek alphabet. Full definition →

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Named by British archaeologist Arthur Evans, to distinguish it from the other linear script, Linear A.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.