Mycenaean Greek
Facts
- Language: Mycenaean Greek
- Alternate names:
- Language code: gmy
- Language family:
- Number of speakers:
- Script:
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Introduction
Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece. The language is preserved in inscriptions in Linear B, a script first attested on Crete before the 14th century BC.
The Mycenaean Greek Verb
Verbs probably conjugated for
- 3 tenses: past, present, future;
- 3 aspects: perfect, perfective, imperfective;
- 3 numbers: singular, dual, plural;
- 4 moods: indicative, imperative, subjunctive, optative;
- 3 voices: active, middle, passive;
- 3 persons: first, second, third;
- infinitives, and
- verbal adjectives.
Verblist
- 𐀁𐀐
- 𐀂𐀍𐀳
- 𐀃𐀏
- 𐀈𐀮
- 𐀟𐀩
- 𐀹𐀆
- a-se-so-si -- to be masculine
- e-we-pe-se-so-me-na -- to be well boiled
- e-wo-ta-de -- to the festival
- o-mi-ri-jo-i -- to the rain spirits