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The Proto-Greek language (also known as Proto-Hellenic) is the Indo-European language which was the last common ancestor of all varieties of Greek, including Mycenaean Greek, the subsequent ancient Greek dialects (i.e., Attic, Ionic, Aeolic, Doric, Arcadocypriot, and ancient Macedonian—either a dialect or a closely related Hellenic language ...
Proto-Hungarian likely had contacts with the Permic languages at this time, as indicated by a nontrivial number of shared vocabulary and sound developments (which are not found in the other Uralic languages). The Hungarians gradually changed their way of living from settled hunting to nomadic cattle-raising.
- developed into Middle Hungarian by the 16th century
- Medieval Hungary
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The Greek language is conventionally divided into the following periods: Proto-Greek: the unrecorded but assumed last ancestor of all known varieties of Greek. The unity of Proto-Greek would have ended as Hellenic migrants entered the Greek peninsula sometime in the Neolithic era or the Bronze Age.
- 13.5 million (2012)
Proto-Indo-European; PIE: Reconstruction of: Indo-European languages: Region: Pontic–Caspian steppe (Proto-Indo-European homeland) Era: c. 4500 – c. 2500 BC: Lower-order reconstructions: Proto-Albanian; Proto-Anatolian; Proto-Armenian; Proto-Balto-Slavic; Proto-Celtic; Proto-Germanic; Proto-Greek; Proto-Indo-Iranian; Proto-Italic; Proto ...
- c. 4500 – c. 2500 BC
Several theories exist about what Hellenic dialect groups may have existed between the divergence of early Greek-like speech from the common Proto-Indo-European language and the Classical period. They have the same general outline, but differ in some of the detail.
The chapter discusses the position of Greek within the Indo-European family. Special attention is paid to innovations shared by all Greek dialects, which allows us to reconstruct Proto-Greek, and to the internal subgrouping of Greek. As for external subgrouping, the similarities of Greek with Macedonian, Phrygian and Armenian are evaluated, and ...
Greek: Geographic distribution: Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Anatolia and the Black Sea region: Linguistic classification: Indo-European (?) Graeco-Phrygian. Hellenic; Proto-language: Proto-Greek: Subdivisions: Greek (?) Macedonian; ISO 639-5: grk: Linguasphere: 56= (phylozone) Glottolog: gree1276
