首页
登录
职称英语
The languages spoken by early Europeans are still shrouded in mystery. T
The languages spoken by early Europeans are still shrouded in mystery. T
游客
2024-01-05
33
管理
问题
The languages spoken by early Europeans are still shrouded in mystery. There is no
linguistic continuity between the languages of Old Europe (a term sometimes used for
Europe between 7000 and 3000 B.C.) and the languages of the modem world, and we
cannot yet translate the Old European script, Scholars have deciphered other ancient
5 languages, such as Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian, which used the cuneiform
script, because of the fortuitous discovery of bilingual inscriptions, When cuneiform
tablets were first discovered in the eighteenth century, scholars could not decipher them.
Then inscriptions found in baa at the end of the eighteenth century provided a link: these
inscriptions were written in cuneiform and in two other ancient languages, Old Persian
10 and New Elamite--languages that had already been deciphered. It took several decades,
but scholars eventually translated the ancient cuneiform script via the more familiar
Old Persian language:
Similarly, the hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians remained a mystery until French
troops unearthed the famous Rosetta stone in the late eighteenth century. The stone carried
15 the same message written in ancient Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Egyptian hieratic,
a simplified form of hieroglyphs. The Rosetta stone thwarted scholars’ efforts for several
decades until the early nineteenth century when several key hieroglyphic phrases were
decoded using the Greek inscriptions. Unfortunately, we have no Old European Rosetta
stone to chart correspondences between Old European script and the languages that
20 replaced it.
Tim incursions of Indo-European tribes into Old Europe from the late fifth to the
early third millennia B.C. caused a linguistic and cultural discontinuity. These incursions
disrupted the Old European sedentary farming lifestyle that had existed for 3,000 years
As the Indo-Europeans encroached on Old Europe from the east, the continent underwent
25 upheavals. These severely affected the Balkans, where the Old European cultures
abundantly employed script. The Old European way of life deteriorated rapidly, although
pockets of Old European culture remained for several millennia, ~ new peoples spoke
completely different languages belonging to the Indo-European linguistic family. The
Old European language or languages, and the script used to write them, declined and
eventually vanished.
选项
A、Reasons for the failure to understand the written records of Old European culture
B、Influences on the development of Old European script
C、Similarities between Old European script and other ancient writing systems
D、Events leading to the discovery of Old European script
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3334699.html
相关试题推荐
WhichthreeforeignlanguagesaretraditionallytaughtintheUSA?[br]Apartfr
WhichthreeforeignlanguagesaretraditionallytaughtintheUSA?[br]Thelect
WhichthreeforeignlanguagesaretraditionallytaughtintheUSA?[br]______ar
WhichthreeforeignlanguagesaretraditionallytaughtintheUSA?[br]Whatper
WhichthreeforeignlanguagesaretraditionallytaughtintheUSA?[br]Howold
Howlongwillthecustomer’scourselast?[br]Whatotherlanguagescanthecust
ThenumbersofdeerhavefluctuatedmarkedlysincetheentryofEuropeansin
ThefirstEuropeanstovisitsouthwesternColoradoweretheSpanish,whosought
Nineteenth-centuryscholarstriedtotracetheoriginsofmodernlanguagestoan
Inthenineteenthcentury,poorEuropeansseekingtomaketheirfortunesturned
随机试题
Ifsomeone(happenstocall)whileI’m(out),pleasehave(them)leaveamessage
风的地质作用包括风蚀作用、风的搬运作用和风积作用。下面几种地貌形态中,不属于风积
女,23岁,间断四肢抽搐发作伴意识丧失2年,1小时前复发,神志不清,先后抽搐3次
下列哪项不是肾虚的症状A、耳鸣耳聋 B、腰膝疫软 C、阳痿遗泄 D、尿频急
水利工程发生特大质量事故后由()组织有关单位提出处理方案。A、上级主管部门 B
(共用题干)男性,40岁,静脉毒瘾患者,近期发热、肌痛、淋巴结肿大,外周血常规检
下列基准中,属于大地测量基准的有()。A.长度基准 B.高程基准 C.重力
在下列关于趋势线的陈述中,正确的陈述有()。A:趋势线是被用来判断股票价格运动方
(2021年真题)某女,53岁。症见四肢厥逆、恶寒踡卧、呕吐不渴、腹痛下利、神衰
某企业年初有上年形成的亏损25万元,当年实现利润总额10万元。假设企业本期无纳税
最新回复
(
0
)