Langenesis

Indo-European family

Mycenaean Greek

c. 1,600 BCE – 1,100 BCE Extinct

Mycenaean Greek (c. 1,600 BCE – 1,100 BCE) is an extinct Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Hellenic → Mycenaean Greek.

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ISO 639-3
gmy

Oldest attested Greek, written in Linear B on palace archive tablets. Not the ancestor of all later Greek dialects.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2,200 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  3. Mycenaean Greekc. 1,600 BCE – 1,100 BCE

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Hellenic.

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