HISTORY OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE
The history of the
language, which Greeks speak is engraved upon its same words which are spoken
and sung now for a thousand years from millions of lips, bring up to us the
same history of the Greek nation.
THE
ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE
From place to place,
Ancient Greeks spoke differently. Namely, the language took another form; it obtained a particular form
called a dialect. In
THE
GREEK OR ALEXANDRIAN KOINE
The Koine language shaped
up, after the classical era, between the century, which began around 300 BC and
300 AD. This language, which slowly became the Koine language of the Greeks,
came from the Attic dialect and certainly from
So the Attic dialect can
become the Koine language, it was needed to take words from other dialects, at
the time when Alexander the Great was conquering the East. This common
language, with time, became the languages of the East. They spoke it and wrote
it everywhere: in Syria, in Asia Minor, in Persia, in Egypt and elsewhere. It
became the international language of that time.
THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE KOINE WITH ANCIENT GREEK AND MODERN GREEK
This language, with time
and its distribution lost its old form and introduced innovation which foretold
the language spoken today. The language of 3 AD century had many components of
the language today. Hence the Koine of the time of Christ completed the first
appearance of Modern Greek.
THE
LANGUAGE IN THE BZANTINE YEARS
The changes continued and
with the Byzantine years. At that time, they generalised even more. Thus we
find many words in the form that they are today. Later, when the
THE
MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE
Today's language has unique
virtue: it expresses ability, flexibility, artificial strength, productive
capacity, which means that the necessities, it composes and produces words,
which expresses everything.
THE
GREEK LANGUAGE
The Greek language has a
great history. It has the greatest history of all the European languages. Written
monuments of the language prove that it existed from the second century BC, the
literature from 2500 years ago. Ancient and modern literature has been written
in Greek. With this language, the people of the Greek nation can express
themselves; tell stories, its proverbs and folk songs.
It is a treasure. But we
have a debt to conquer, to this linguistic treasure of ours. And to succeed, we
need help. Anyone who can learn this language, as well as the language, will
benefit from it. It will train your mind
and will make you see things clearer.
Greek should be kept alive!