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Greek is an Indo-European language. Since the early nineteenth century linguists have demonstrated the existence of and studied a large family of European and Asian languages, ancient and modern, that are closely related to one another and not similarly related to languages outside their group. It is assumed that the kinship among Indo-European languages reflects a prehistoric kinship among their speakers. A few of the language groups classified as Indo-European are Indic (Old Indic: i.e., Sanskrit), Slavic, Italic (including Latin), Germanic, and Greek. English, with its Germanic ancestry and admixture of Latinate elements via French, is also an Indo-European language. 2. Before about 2000 b.c.e. the inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula and the Aegean islands spoke languages other than Greek (some of them possibly not Indo-European). Among these earlier groups were the Minoans on Crete, who had a script now known as Linear A (as yet undeciphered); the Eteocypriots on Cyprus; and other peoples (Pelasgians, Carians, Tyrseni, Leleges) on the mainland, the islands, and the coast of Asia Minor. The Greek language inherited some words from these earlier inhabitants of the lands that beca

Published

2019

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EN