Encyclopedia - Koine Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - Koine Greek - Sources Of Koine
The first scholars who studied Koine, both in Alexandrian and contemporary times, were classicists whose prototype had been the literary ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Phonology - Types Of Arguments And Evidence Used In Reconstruction
The above information is based on a large body of evidence which was discussed extensively by linguists and philologists of the 19th and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Phonology - History Of The Reconstruction Of Ancient Pronunciation
Ancient Greek phonology - The renaissance. Until the 15th century (during the time of the Byzantine Greek Empire) ancient Greek texts w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Koine Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - Koine Greek - The Term Koine
Koine (Κοινή), which is Greek for "Common", is a term that had been previously applied by ancient scholars to several forms of Greek...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Phonology - Accent
In Ancient Greek one syllable of a word was normally accented. Unlike Modern Greek, this was a pitch accent; in other words the accented ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Phonology - Consonants
In comparison with the vowels, the structure of the consonant inventory of Greek has remained relatively stable over time as far as the n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Koine Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - Koine Greek - Evolution From Ancient Greek
The study of all sources from the six centuries that are symbolically covered by Koine reveals linguistic changes from Ancient Greek on p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Phonology - Vowels
Attic Greek phonemicaly contrasted long and short vowels. The vowel inventory of Attic Greek, as reconstructed, contained five short and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Phonology - Diphthongs
Ancient Greek had a large number of diphthongs. All of them were closing diphthongs, ending in either /i/ or /u/ as a semi-vocalic offgli...   » Read the article