Category
page 1Aegean languages in the Bronze Age
Linear B
ancient syllabary for Mycenaean Greek used ca. 1400 BCE – 1200 BCE
Linear A
undeciphered writing system from Crete
Proto-Greek
last common ancestor of all varieties of Greek
Lemnian
language
Eteocypriot
language
Cypro-Minoan script
syllabary script, undeciphered, used on the island of Cyprus during the late Bronze Age (ca. 1550–1050 BCE)
pre-Greek substrate
unknown pre-Indo-European language(s) spoken in prehistoric Greece before the coming of the Proto-Greek language in the Greek peninsula during the Bronze Age
Aegean numerals
numeral system used by the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations; attested in Linear A and Linear B scripts