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