Linear B tablet. Credit: Sharon Mollerus / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons A recent linguistic study challenges long-held assumptions about whether...
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Linear B tablet. Credit: Sharon Mollerus / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons A recent linguistic study challenges long-held assumptions about whether early Greek absorbed features from the languages of ancient Anatolia. The research, led by Michele Bianconi of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, offers a fresh and cautious reassessment of how much early Greek may have been shaped through contact with Anatolian languages between the second and first millennia BCE. Bianconi’s work, published in the Journal of Greek Linguistics, is the first systematic study to evaluate claims that Greek was influenced by Anatolian languages such as Hittite and Luwian. He approached the topic with...
Linear B tablet. Credit: Sharon Mollerus / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons A recent linguistic study challenges long-held assumptions about whether...
A recent linguistic study challenges long-held assumptions about whether early Greek absorbed features from the languages of ancient Anatolia. The...
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