SV: Pre-Greek languages

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>lmfosse at online.no writes:

> Aartun analyses Linear A as a Semitic language. His work has been critiziced
> from certain quarters here in Norway. I don't know of any reviews of his
> books.

-- I certainly find that more credible than hypothesizing that Linear A is
used to write any IE language -- certainly any IE language of the 2nd
millenium BCE.

Linear B, modified to do better with Greek, still mucks up the inflectional
system something fierce.