SV: Pre-Greek languages
JoatSimeon at aol.com
JoatSimeon at aol.com
Sun Oct 3 07:16:05 UTC 1999
>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.
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