Based essentially on a dialect of the type that was eventually called Arcado-Cypriot, it shows great uniformity in time (during the two centuries or thereabouts covered by documents) and in space (from Knossos to Thebes).
Among Greek Cypriots, GDP per head is $14,000; among Turkish Cypriots it is $4,000.
Direct access to Turkey for Greek Cypriots – it is, after all, less than 50 miles away – could bring many benefits.
When talking about the rights and responsibilities of the Cypriots, it's important to distinguish between the ordinary people, who are understandably bewildered by the fate that has befallen their country, and the government, which has been playing a double game.
Not only would it further gum up the Cypriot economy, it would send a bad signal to depositors in other vulnerable euro zone countries like Spain, Italy and Greece.
Given the perilous state of the Cypriot economy, it is no easy assignment.
If Nicosia brought back the Cypriot pound, it would plummet in value.
IndyMac needed rescuing because, like the Cypriot bank, it placed a large bet just before one of the biggest recent credit disasters.
He, of course, will point to the three points gained and the chance that despite the Cypriot pressure it was Ireland who, on the counter, created the two best chances of the second half.
Even if a financial assistance programme is agreed by Monday, when the European Central Bank has threatened to cut off emergency funding to failing Cypriot lenders, it will come at an inordinately heavy price.
Once the questionnaire was translated and adapted for the Cypriot population, it was tested by a purposive sample of ten midwives who were lay persons.
