--- title: "Katakana and Cypriot" url: https://daily.dev/posts/katakana-and-cypriot-fcjtfpbja source_url: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/06/12/syllabaries type: article source: "Arthur O'Dwyer" published: 2026-06-12T18:22:15.873Z updated: 2026-06-12T18:23:58.647Z reading_time: 2 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Katakana and Cypriot **[Arthur O'Dwyer](https://daily.dev/sources/quuxplusone)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comparison of the Cypriot syllabic script (used on Cyprus until the 4th century BC) and Japanese katakana reveals that many signs share identical or similar graphical forms for the same phonetic values — despite having no historical connection. A full Unicode-based table maps Cypriot syllabary glyphs to their katakana counterparts across all vowel combinations (A, E, I, O, U rows), illustrating this coincidence. The post draws from Louis Godart's 1994 book on the Phaistos Disc and references a 2013 doctoral thesis on Aegean syllabary interconnections. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Same Look, Different Code: The Technical Reality Behind Homoglyph Attacks](https://daily.dev/posts/same-look-different-code-the-technical-reality-behind-homoglyph-attacks-y0zjzlc1m) · Security Boulevard · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/katakana-and-cypriot-fcjtfpbja)