Proto-Greek

See also: Protogreek

English

Alternative forms

• Protogreek

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.

Synonyms

• protohellenic

See also

• The category of Proto-Greek on Wiktionary
• Wikipedia has an article on Proto-Greek