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Greek (ελληνική γλώσσα IPA: [eliniˈkʲi ˈɣlosa] or simply ελληνικά IPA: [eliniˈka] — "Hellenic") is one of the earliest attested Indo-European languages (with fragmentary records in Mycenaean dating back to the 15th or 14th century BC)
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Mycenaean is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th to 11th centuries BC, before the Dorian invasion. It is preserved in inscriptions in Linear B, a script invented on Crete before the 14th century BC. Most instances of these inscriptions...
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Mycenaean language, or Mycenaean Greek language -- Britannica ... |
Linear B is an adapted form of Linear A, which was borrowed from the Minoans by the Mycenaean Greeks, probably about 1600 BC. Its language is the Mycenaean Greek dialect.
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Category:Mycenaean Greek language - Wiktionary |
Entries in category “Mycenaean Greek language...
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The most ancient form of the Greek language was that used in Mycenae and on Crete in the 16-11 centuries BC, until the Doric invasion.
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GREEK, Ancient |
Thus it has been suggested that Mycenaean Greek may represent a supra-regional koine in use in the second millennium BC. Also, though not a distinct dialect, the language of the Homeric epics, ...
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History of the Greek Language |
The history of the Greek Language begins, as far as the surviving texts are concerned, with the Mycenaean civilization at least as early as the thirteenth century BCE.
Wikipedia: History of (the) Greek (Language): good chronological overview of the successive phases of the Greek language from its Indo-European origin to Modern Greek, stuffed with internal links ...
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Language in Ancient Greece - Crystalinks |
Origins - There are several theories about the origins of the Greek language. ... Linear B - The first known script for writing Greek was the Linear B syllabary, used for the archaic Mycenaean dialect.