Proto-Greek

See also: Protogreek

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Etymology

proto- + Greek

Noun

Proto-Greek (uncountable)

  1. The earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenaean and the classical Greek dialects; the language was already spoken by the ancestors of the Greeks in the Balkans (i.e. Greece) during the Neolithic period or the Bronze Age.

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