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gmyMycenaean Greek  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland, Crete and Cyprus in the 16th to 12th centuries BC, before the hypothesised Dorian invasion which was often cited as the terminus post quem for the coming of the Greek language to Greece. The language is preserved in inscriptions in Linear B, a script first attested on Crete before the 14th century BC. Most instances of these inscriptions are on clay tablets found in Knossos in central Crete, and in Pylos in the southwest of the Peloponnese. Other tablets have been found at Mycenae itself, Tiryns and Thebes and at Chania in Western Crete. The language is named after Mycenae, one of the major centres of Mycenaean Greece.

Entry terms

  • Greek, Mycenaean

ISO 639-3 code

  • gmy

In other languages

  • Griego micenico

    Aragonese

  • Микенски език

    Bulgarian

  • Micènic

    Catalan

  • 邁錫尼希臘語

    Chinese

  • Mikenski grčki jezik

    Croatian

  • Myceens

    Dutch

  • Luenga micénica

    Extremaduran

  • Finnish

  • Mycénien

    French

  • Grego micénico

    Galician

  • Mykenisches Griechisch

    German

  • Μυκηναϊκή ελληνική

    Greek

  • מיקנית

    Hebrew

  • माइसीनियाई यूनानी

    Hindi

  • Dialetto miceneo

    Italian

  • Lingua Graeca Mycenaea

    Latin

  • Микенски јазик

    Macedonian

  • Mykensk språk

    Norwegian

  • Język mykeński

    Polish

  • Grego micênico

    Portuguese

  • Limba miceniană

    Romanian

  • Микенский язык

    Russian

  • Griego micénico

    Spanish

  • Мікенська мова

    Ukrainian

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gmy

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