“it’s all ‘greek’ to me…”
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/ˈkɔɪniː/
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US english
/kɔɪˈneɪ/,
/ˈkɔɪneɪ/ or
/kiːˈniː/
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from ‘koine greek’ ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, “the common dialect”)
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*also known as*
alexandrian dialect
common attic
hellenistic
biblical greek
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(modern greek: Ελληνιστική Κοινή, “hellenistic koiné”,
in the sense of “hellenistic supraregional language”)
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(“koine greek” was the common supra-regional form of ‘greek’ spoken and written during ‘hellenistic’ and ‘roman’ antiquity and the early ‘byzantine era’, or “late antiquity”)
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(it evolved from the spread of ‘greek’ following the conquests of ‘alexander the great’ in the ‘4th century BC’, and served as the ‘lingua franca’ of much of the ‘mediterranean region’ and the ‘middle east’ during the following centuries)
(it was based mainly on ‘attic’ and related ‘ionic’ speech forms, with various admixtures brought about through ‘dialect levelling’ with other varieties)
(“koine greek” displayed a wide spectrum of different styles, ranging from more conservative literary forms to the spoken vernaculars of the time)
(as the dominant language of the ‘byzantine empire’, it developed further into ‘medieval greek’, which in turn evolved into “modern greek”)
(‘koine greek’ remained the court language of the ‘byzantine empire’ until its dissolution in ‘1453’, while ‘medieval’ and eventually ‘modern greek’ were the everyday language)
(‘literary koine’ was the medium of much of post-classical greek literary and scholarly writing, such as the works of ‘plutarch’ and ‘polybius’)
(‘koine’ is also the language of the ‘christian new testament’, of the ‘septuagint’ (the 3rd-century BC greek translation of the ‘hebrew bible’), and of most early christian theological writing by the ‘church fathers’)
(in this context, “koine greek” is also known as “biblical”, “new testament”, “ecclesiastical” or “patristic” greek)
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(it continues to be used as the ‘liturgical language’ of services in the ‘greek orthodox church’)
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👈👈👈 ☜ *“CLASSICAL GREEK”*
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👈👈👈☜*“THE GREEK LANGUAGE”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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