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During the Hellenistic period, a new Greek dialect came to form originating from the Attica dialect. Eventually, it became the common Greek language. Dr. Nikolaos Pantelidis, Professor at the ...

Griko is the dialect of Italiot Greek spoken by Griko people in Salento and Calabria. Some Greek linguists consider it to be a Modern Greek dialect and often call it Grekanika, whereas its own ...

When it comes to working out the relationships between ancient languages, grammar is more enlightening than vocabulary, scientists say. There are some 300 language families in the world today.

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Linguists fear that the ancient Greek dialect Romeyka, which has only a few thousand speakers, could die out — severing a tie with the ancient world. Romeyka is spoken in northern Turkey but has more ...

Figure 1: Consensus tree and divergence-time estimates. The constraint tree used to filter the MCMC sample of trees also contained assumptions about Indo-European history that might have biased the ...