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Ancient Greek phonology is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of Ancient Greek.This article mostly deals with the pronunciation of the standard Attic dialect of the fifth century BC, used by Plato and other Classical Greek writers, and touches on other dialects spoken at the same time or earlier.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Greek on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Greek in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
However, much of the Roman Empire did have significant Greek-speaking communities, as Greek had been a popular language among the Roman elite from the beginning. Both koine and modern forms and transliterations (including polytonic spellings) are listed if available.
Aeolian was the dialect that kept the sound /w/ longest. In discussions by ancient Greek grammarians of the Hellenistic era, the letter is therefore often described as a characteristic Aeolian feature. Loanwords that entered Greek before the loss of /w-/ lost that sound when Greek did.
Below is a list of several words in the Aeolian dialect, written in the Greek alphabet, along with a transcription in the Latin alphabet. Each word is followed by its meaning and compared to similar words in other ancient Greek dialects. The "notes" section provides additional information, and if applicable, an etymology is given.
Aeolis (/ ˈ iː ə l ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Αἰολίς, romanized: Aiolís), or Aeolia (/ iː ˈ oʊ l i ə /; Ancient Greek: Αἰολία, romanized: Aiolía), was an area that comprised the west and northwestern region of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), mostly along the coast, and also several offshore islands (particularly Lesbos), where the Aeolian Greek city-states were located.
In Greek mythology, Aeolus or Aiolos [1] (/ ˈ iː ə l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Αἴολος [ǎi̯.o.los], Greek: ⓘ) is a name shared by three mythical characters.These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which.
The name derives from Aeolus, the mythical ancestor of the Aeolians and son of Hellen, himself the mythical patriarch of the Greek nation. The name Aeolian (lit. ' of the wind ') derives from the Greek name Aeolus, aiolos (αίολος) literally meaning "changeable", "quickly moving". [7]