Back لغات ما قبل اليونانية Arabic Sustratu prehelénicu AST Предгръцки езици Bulgarian Προελληνικό υπόστρωμα Greek Substrato prehelénico Spanish زبان پیشایونانی Persian Préhellénique A French Pregörög szubsztrátum Hungarian Substratum Pra-Yunani ID Substrato preellenico Italian
The pre-Greek substrate (or substratum) consists of the unknown Pre-Indo-European languages spoken in prehistoric Greece prior to the emergence of the Proto-Greek language in the region c. 2200 BCE, during the Early Helladic period. About 1,000 words of Greek vocabulary cannot be adequately explained as derivatives from Proto-Greek or Proto-Indo-European, leading to the substratum hypothesis.[1][2]
- ^ Duhoux 2007a, pp. 220–222.
- ^ Beekes 2014, pp. 47–48, "Our knowledge of Indo-European has expanded so much, especially in the last thirty years (notably because of the laryngeal theory) that in some cases we can say almost with certainty that an Indo-European reconstruction is impossible. [...] In my EDG, I marked with >PG< all words which, in my view, were of Pre-Greek origin. I found 1106 words.".