Pre-Greek languages

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Sun Oct 3 07:11:19 UTC 1999


>larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk writes:

<<  I think they tend rather to support the idea that Linear A was used to
write a language quite different from Greek, and that Linear B was merely
cobled so as to produce something in which it was possible to write Greek.  A
system invented from square one for writing Greek would surely have done a
better job.  >>

-- mea culpa, I was unclear.  You've summed up exactly what I meant to say.



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