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Medieval Greek
| History of Greek (See also: Greek alphabet ) |
| Proto-Greek (c. 2000 BC.) |
| Mycenaean (c. 1600-1100 BC.) |
| Ancient Greek (c. 800-300 BC.) Dialects : Wind , Arcado-Cypriot , Ionian-Attic , Dorian , Pamphylian ; Homeric Greek . Dialect possible: former Macedonian . |
| Koine (from 300 BC.) |
| Medieval Greek (c. 330-1453) |
| Modern Greek (from 1453) Dialects : Cappadocian , Cretan , Cypriot , Demotic , Griko , Katharevousa , Pontic , Tsakonian , yvanique |
Medieval Greek (in Greek : ) is a linguistic term that describes the third period in the history of the Greek language.
Definition
Its boundaries correspond to the symbolic transfer of the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople in 330 and the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Greek medieval being contemporary with the Byzantine Empire , it also uses the term Byzantine Greek.
Variants
We know three variants:
- one, scholarly and " atticisante "was commonly used by scholars;
- another religion, is ("Greek liturgical"), especially sung;
- others say ("medieval folk") are the dialects ("Helladic" in Greece, around the Aegean and Constantinople ), (italic, Calabria and Sicily , causing the Griko ) , ("Caspian" around the Black Sea , with features archaic , originally the dialect of Pontic modern) ("South", in Cyrenaica and Egypt ) and ("East", in Asia Minor Domestic - Anatolia and the Near East). In addition, the yvanique , the important Hebrew lexicon, was spoken by Romaniotes (Greek Jews) Notes
- Francis T. Gignac, The Koine Is The direct ancestor of Medieval and Modern Greek, Oxford University Press Inc.. 1993.
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