Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC,; . or possibly earlier.; . The earliest written evidence is a Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living language. Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now-extinct Anatolian languages.
Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC,; . or possibly earlier.; . The earliest written evidence is a Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living language. Among the Indo-European languages its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now-extinct Anatolian languages.