[Verginius Rufus]

Do they know what language these people spoke? Later Cyprus was partly Greek-speaking and partly Phoenician-speaking, but I don't know if the Greek speakers had already arrived by this time.

Later the Greek-speaking Cypriots used a syllabary for writing, long after other Greeks were using the Greek alphabet (and they were in contact with those other Greeks). I guess traditions die hard.

[SunkenCiv]

Cyprus (Keftiu) spoke Minoan or a related dialect, Eteocyprian; the Mycenaean Greek speakers took over the former Minoan world, trade routes, etc, and on Crete adapted Linear A (still undecipher) into Linear B.

On Cyprus there’s a short bilingual inscription.

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015.01.24/

https://www.academia.edu/7174257/The_Amathus_Bilingual_Inscription

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42617368

https://omniglot.com/writing/cypriot.htm

http://www.palaeolexicon.com/Cypriot