R A Brown, On 06/05/2007 18:10:
> I want to keep "Flexionless Greek" (FG) free from any Byzantine and/or
> modern influence. I have in mind a conhistory in which survivors of the
> Graeco-Bactrian kingdom move eastwards towards China and that a
> Greek-based pidgin is formed and comes to be used in a mixed-race
> community; because of the perceived prestige status of Greek, the
> vocabulary is almost entirely Greek, but the language becomes
> flexionless à la chinoise. The pidgin then becomes the L1 of the
> children of this mixed community and thus becomes a creole. These
> "flexionless Greeks'" have adopted Buddhism - maybe Benct Philip might
> fill out the conhistory for me :)
[...]
> The pronunciation will be based on that of early Hellenistic, i.e. the
> end of the first cent BCE, and perhaps the early part of the 1st cent
> CE.
When is FG itself spoken? How much time has elapsed since it split from Greek (or
since it creolized)?
--And.