Trojan Language Probably Wasn't Greek

Archaeologists and historians still do not know what language the people of Late Bronze Age Troy spoke around 1300 BCE or whether the city used a single language at all. The site contains no Greek writing from the relevant period, and current evidence points away from Greek as the Trojans' native language. Luwian remains one candidate because of regional connections, possibly Luwian names, and a hieroglyphic Luwian seal found at Troy, but none of this evidence proves what residents spoke. Although the Iliad portrays Trojans and Greeks speaking the same language, scholars consider the portrayal a poetic convention rather than historical evidence.

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