how to pronounce minoan

/mɪˈnəʊən/

audio example by a male speaker

audio example by a female speaker

the above transcription of minoan is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

minoan is pronounced in four syllables

press buttons with phonetic symbols to learn how to precisely pronounce each sound of minoan

1.

2.

3.

4. example pitch curve for pronunciation of minoan

test your pronunciation of minoan

press the "test" button to check how closely you can replicate the pitch of a native speaker in your pronunciation of minoan

video examples of minoan pronunciation

An example use of minoan in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… of the minoan civilization another in …”

meanings of minoan

adjective:

Of or relating to the civilization that developed in Crete from the neolithic period to the Bronze Age (about 3000-1050 B.C.E.).
Of or relating to the ancient language of the Minoans which died out by the beginning of the 1st millennium B.C.E..
Of or relating to the writing systems (Linear A and Linear B) used in Crete and later in mainland Greece.

noun:

A Cretan who belonged to the Minoan civilization.

name:

The language written in Linear A.

minoan frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word minoan occurs in english on average 3.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics minoan can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that minoan can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

2) life, nature, and living environment;