Linguistics discussion (split from new factions thread)

[cmacq]

before the kw > p shift (which took place quite late - 1st half of the 1st millennium BC)

Precision
Now we’re talking my language. Two small problems here. First, although it represents a form of Greek used in Greece during the Near Eastern Late Bronze Age, Linear B (the writing system) when out of use as the Mycenaean world fell apart. Second, as Mycenaean Greek was primarily restricted to the Greek cul-de-sac, this language could not have represented the mainstream of where Centrum Indo-European was developing. And we all know where that was, right? Well, we all know it wasn't in Greece.

Insertion of Dorian Greeks together with their fellow travelers bears this point quite well. Rather, this alone indicates that the P-shift was occurring during the last two centuries (possibly a bit earlier) of the 2nd millennium BC, otherwise neither the Dorians nor the Latins would have landed were they did, when they did, with their Ps firmly in hand. The important thing is that the worlds of the west and near east completely changed in these few centuries. Its like standing on one side of the grand canyon and seeing the rim of the other side.





CmacQ