Greek

The Greek language forms, by itself, a separate branch of the Indo-European family. It is one of the oldest attested Indo-European languages, being attested from c. 1400 bc in the Mycenaean Greek documents found on Crete (and from somewhat later on the the Mycenaean Greek documents found on Crete (and from somewhat later, on the Greek mainland) written in the Linear B syllabary. Except for a break in attestation between the end of the Mycenaean empire (c. 1150 bc) and roughly 800 bc, a period sometimes referred to as the ‘Dark Ages’ of Greek culture, Greek presents a continuous record of attestation for the linguist, right up to the present day.