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Ancient Greek in classical antiquity, before the development of the common Koine Greek of the Hellenistic period, was divided into several varieties.. Most of these varieties are known only from inscriptions, but a few of them, principally Aeolic, Doric, and Ionic, are also represented in the literary canon alongside the dominant Attic form of literary Greek.
Greek dialects may refer to: Ancient Greek dialects; Varieties of Modern Greek This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 16:14 (UTC). Text is available ...
Mariupolitan Greek is closely related to Pontic Greek and evolved from the dialect of Greek spoken in the Crimea, which was a part of the Pontic Empire of Trebizond until that state fell to the Ottomans in 1461. [37] Thereafter the Crimean region remained independent and continued to exist as the Greek Principality of Theodoro.
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. [6] Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [7]
Modern Greek (endonym: Νέα Ελληνικά, Néa Elliniká [ˈne.a eliniˈka] or Κοινή Νεοελληνική Γλώσσα, Kiní Neoellinikí Glóssa), generally referred to by speakers simply as Greek (Ελληνικά, Elliniká), refers collectively to the dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era, including the official standardized form of the language sometimes ...
In linguistics, Aeolic Greek (/ iː ˈ ɒ l ɪ k /), also known as Aeolian (/ iː ˈ oʊ l i ə n /), Lesbian or Lesbic dialect, is the set of dialects of Ancient Greek spoken mainly in Boeotia; in Thessaly; in the Aegean island of Lesbos; and in the Greek colonies of Aeolis in Anatolia and adjoining islands.
Attic Greek is the Greek dialect of the ancient region of Attica, including the polis of Athens. Often called classical Greek , it was the prestige dialect of the Greek world for centuries and remains the standard form of the language that is taught to students of ancient Greek.
Hellenic languages and dialects is a branch of the Indo-European (IE) language family. The Greek language is the only living Hellenic language. This category includes all ancient, medieval and modern Greek dialects ; other articles about linguistic aspects of Greek are in Category:Greek language .