Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek

(linguisticdiscovery.com)

22 points | by axiologist 2 hours ago

3 comments

  • noncoml 5 minutes ago
    > early Greeks, and especially the Mycenaeans (c. 1750–1050 BCE), are associated with major advances in technology (including writing)

    I’ve been doing a bit of reading on the Bronze Age Collapse recently. It was such an apocalyptic event that Greeks forgot how to write and read.

    Before the collapse Greeks Linear A and Linear B. It took them a few hundred years after the Beonze Age Collapse to start writing again, this time by borrowing the Phoenician alphabet.

  • fr2029 2 minutes ago
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