The Linear B Syllabary
I’ll start with the writing system that I have swiftly fallen into a deep love and passion for! The Mycenaean syllabary was first attested in the 16th century BCE. It was used by the Mycenaeans up until the Bronze Age collapse in the 12th century BCE. There was a theory of it being written in the 17th century BCE, but it is largely believed that that was a hoax!
The syllabary includes both syllabic characters and logographic characters. The syllabary itself was based on the earlier Minoan Linear A syllabary, but Linear A has yet to be deciphered. Here are some charts I made showing the syllabary in the style of Omniglot’s charts (Basically I tried to copy it).
The logograms, as their name implies, corresponded to words instead of specific sounds, think like kanji characters in Japanese. For example, the word for man could be written as
