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History of the Greek Language

Koine Greek is part of the legacy left by Modern Greek, is written in a non-Latin
Alexander the Great's imperial conquests script. Greek is one of the richest
which united Asia Minor, the north of surviving languages in the world today,
&rica, and the vast territories of the with a vocabulary more than 600,000
Persian empire. Though his death saw the words. Some scholars have stressed the
end of the empire he had forged, there similarity of Modern Greek to millennia
remained a common Greek language, Koine, old Greek languages. The extent of Modern
that continued to be spoken in the lands Greek's commonality with ancient Greek
he conquered. This became the common has been extensively reviewed and
language of the Mediterranean basin and debated. It is claimed that a "reasonably
the ancestor of Modern Greek. well educated" speaker of the modern
The Greek language, as we know it today, tongue can read the ancient dialects, but
had its origin during the classical era, it is not made very clear how much of
though it has undergone a considerable that education consists of exposure to
number of changes. In our day, in its vocabulary and grammar obsolete in normal
modern form, demotik?r 'popular' Greek communication.
is the official language of Greece and The Greek language spoken in both in the
Cyprus. It is also a recognized minority Hellenistic and Byzantine eras is nearer
language in Italy, Turkey, and Albania. to Modern Greek. From 1934 to 1976 there
Greek is part of the Indo-European family was an attempt to impose a purified
of languages. The earliest form of Greek language, an attempt to correct centuries
is thought to have originated in the 14th of natural linguistic changes) as the
century BCE in Cretan inscriptions. only acceptable form of Greek in Greece.
Mycenaean Greek is distinguished from After 1976, Dimoti'ci, "speech of the
later Classical or Greek of the 8th people" was finally accepted by the Greek
century BCE and after, when texts came to government as both the de facto and de
be written in the Greek alphabet. jure forms of the language. A large
Various theories about the origins of the number of words and expressions have
Greek language exist. One suggests that remained unchanged through the centuries,
it originated with a migration of and have found their way into a number of
proto-Greek speakers into Greece, which other languages, among them Latin,
is dated to any period between 3200 BC Italian, German, French and English. Some
to 1900 BC. Another theory holds that examples of these include mostly
Greek evolved in Greece itself out of an terminology names, such as astronomy,
early language of Indo-European origin. philosophy, democracy and anthropology.
The Greek language including Attic and




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