link me something that the myceneans spoke archaic greek ..............and , did the minoans speak archiac Greek?
I pay attention, but the answer on what was Mycenean language pre minoan conquest is what I am wanting to know .............you are indicating that minoans and myceneans spoke archaic Greek before linear A was formed
With no search at all, take this from wiki: "The decipherment of the Mycenaean Linear B script, a writing system adapted for the use of the Greek language of the Late Bronze Age,[11] demonstrated the continuity of Greek speech from the second millennium BC into the eighth century BC when a new script emerged. Moreover, it revealed that the bearers of Mycenaean culture were ethnically connected with the populations that resided in the Greek peninsula after the end of this cultural period"
Also this:
"The Proto-Greek language (also known as Proto-Hellenic) is the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek, including Mycenaean Greek, the subsequent ancient Greek dialects (i.e., Attic, Ionic, Aeolic, Doric, Ancient Macedonian and Arcadocypriot) and, ultimately, Koine, Byzantine and Modern Greek. The unity of Proto-Greek would have ended as Hellenic migrants, who spoke the predecessor of the Mycenaean language, entered the Greek peninsula sometime in the Neolithic or the Bronze Age.[1]"
The Minoan language is still not not deciphered. All the evidence suggest that it was not Greek, not IE, but sth else.
And again, you miss the point. Try to get thing together:
- Minoans -> unknown languange -> Linear A script
- Myceneaens -> archaic Greek language -> no script at first -> Linear B script after the contact with the Minoans and the borrowing of their alphabet.
Clear now?