How has Greek changed over time?
Myrl Nolan
2025-05-13 04:57:21
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The first written Greek letters were found on baked mud tablets, in the remains of the Minoan Knossos Palace of Crete island. This language is known as Linear A and it has not been fully decoded till today. In the 12th century BC, a new language started to develop, called Linear B, where each drawing symbol is a consonant-vowel combination. In the late 9th and early 8th century BC, the language found was based on the Phoenician syllabary, written from left to right and back again. This form of the inscription is the closest to the modern language of today. During the Classical period, the territory of Greece was divided into numerous states and each one had its own dialect. After the expeditions of Alexander the Great, Attic dialect was also expanded in the depths of the East and it was spoken by millions of people, this gradually led to a mixing dialect which was the beginning of the koine, or common dialect, mostly known as the Hellenistic Koine. The koine is the original language of the New Testament and the basis for the development of Medieval and Modern Greek. With the creation of the modern Greek State in 1829, the question of the language, as an important part of the nation-building process, had to be resolved, and the Greek scholar Adamantios Korais suggested reforming the spoken language of those times on ancient principals, which led to the creation of the katharevoussa. Dimotiki language was adopted in education and administration in 1976, and it has been kept since then as the formal language of modern Greece.
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