Re: Is language cyclic?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 21, 2002, 19:14 |
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En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
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> Mycenaean Greek and Hettite are attested well back in the second
> millennium
> BC - obviously the PIE stage must've occured before this. So we have a
> pretty certain lower limit.
>
Agreed. Although some scholars consider Hittite to be a sister language or a
dialect of PIE rather than a descendant (not that I agree or disagree with
them, I don't have enough information to make my own opinion). I don't know
anything about Mycenaean Greek, but how well known is it?
Christophe.
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