Concept information
Preferred term
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
Notation
- gmy
In other languages
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Mycénien
French
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Mykenisches Griechisch
German
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Dialetto miceneo
Italian
-
Portuguese
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Griego micénico
Spanish
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gmy
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