GreekIslandGirl wrote:Sure, some people came to Greece over time from other places. That's the same anywhere. But the Minoans are the continuation of the earliest inhabitants (that's what the article confirms) and all are known as early Greeks - just like the cave-dwellers of Britain are known as early-Brits. The rest of your spouts are irrelevant. Greeks have changed over time - that doesn't mean they were not Greek or are not Greek now. Look how much the English have changed from the time of Shakespeare.
M
So, have you finally accepted that not all symbols represent a sound?
But the point when the people in what is now Greece became definably Greek was likely sometime after 2000bc before they met the Minoans, likely in about 1700bc or so, and by which time the Minoan Civilisation was well defined.
English does not use a Syllabic Script.I can infact read the English of Shakespeare, with a struggle that of Chaucer, who was a few hundred years earlier again. Beowulf , in very early English, not quite.
The key point is that for a Syllabic script the syllabic symbols reflect sound, otherwise it would not be a Syllabic script. That Linear A is a Syllabic script is proven by linear B where essentially the same symbol set corresponds to sounds, which when strung togther in words are Greek. Earlier Cretan Hyroglyphics on the other hand were likely not a Syllabic script. Interestingly linear B only arrives at about the time the previously illiterate Greeks took over in Crete. I suspect that rather than invent a new sytem which would mean having to agree how sounds and symbols correspond the Scribes took an existing system and with minor mods adapted it to fit Greek. A lot easier than reinventing the wheel.
What you have otherwise failed to explain is why if linear a represented Greek there was such a rapid change, virtually overnight, from Using Linear a to using Linear B which meant everyone having to learn a new system.
