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| − | The '''Mycenaean language''' existed in the eastern [[Mediterranean]] region among the [[Bronze Age]] [[Mycenaeans]] (who called themselves Achaeans), an Indo-European people who arrived in [[Greece]] and the Aegean about | + | The '''Mycenaean language''' existed in the eastern [[Mediterranean]] region among the [[Bronze Age]] [[Mycenaeans]] (who called themselves Achaeans), an Indo-European people who arrived in [[Greece]] and the Aegean about 1700 BC. They formed a culture starting about 1650 BC. The civilization, and with it, its literacy, disappeared between 1100 and 1000 BC in the great disruptions caused by the movement of what are called the "Sea Peoples" throughout the area. The language has been lost and is no longer spoken; however, its writing, known as Linear B, was deciphered in 1953, and shows the language to have been a form of [[Greek]]. |
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The Mycenaean language existed in the eastern Mediterranean region among the Bronze Age Mycenaeans (who called themselves Achaeans), an Indo-European people who arrived in Greece and the Aegean about 1700 BC. They formed a culture starting about 1650 BC. The civilization, and with it, its literacy, disappeared between 1100 and 1000 BC in the great disruptions caused by the movement of what are called the "Sea Peoples" throughout the area. The language has been lost and is no longer spoken; however, its writing, known as Linear B, was deciphered in 1953, and shows the language to have been a form of Greek.