Eteocypriot is an extinct non-Indo-European language that was spoken in Cyprus by a non-Hellenic population during the Iron Age.

Due to the small number of texts found, there is currently much unproven speculation about the origin of the language and its speakers.

[5] Several hundred inscriptions written in the Cypriot syllabary (VI-III BC) cannot be interpreted in Greek.

The most famous Eteocypriot inscription is a bilingual text inscribed on a black marble slab found on the acropolis of Amathus about 1913, dated to around 600 BC and written in both the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek and Eteocypriot.

The inscription is important as verifying that the symbols of the unknown language, in fact, have about the same phonetic values as they do when they are used to represent Greek.