💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Classical language"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| classical greeknoun | The form of the Ancient Greek language used during the classical period of Greek literature: approximately 600 to 300 BCE. |
| constructed languagenoun | (linguistics) A human language that has been consciously devised by an individual or a group, as opposed to having naturally evolved as part of a culture like a natural language. |
| ancient greeknoun | Any of the various forms of the Greek language of classical antiquity, particularly the classical Attic dialect used in Athenian literature. |
| urlanguagenoun | (linguistics) A basic or original language; proto-language. |
| classical chinesenoun | The written Chinese language used from the Zhou Dynasty (1045 B.C.E.) (especially the Spring and Autumn Period), through to the end of the Han Dynasty (220 C.E.). In Chinese, 古文 (gǔwén, “Ancient Writing”) or, formally, 古典漢語 /古典汉语 (“Classical Chinese”). The language of many classics of Chinese literature. |
| literary chinesenoun | The written Chinese language used from the end of the Han Dynasty (220 C.E.) to the early 20th century. In Chinese, 文言 (wényán, “literary writing”). |
| ancientsnoun | The people of classical antiquity, especially such writers and philosophers. |
| classical egyptiannoun | (linguistics, history) Middle Egyptian, sometimes also including Old Egyptian |
| archaic egyptiannoun | (linguistics, history) The Egyptian language as written and spoken during the Early Dynastic Period, before the time of the earliest attested complete sentences. |
| proto-greeknoun | The earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenaean and the classical Greek dialects. |
| classical antiquitynoun | (history) The era of the height of Greco-Roman civilization in southern Europe, roughly comprising the 6th century BC to the 5th century (AD), although sometimes distinguished from Late Antiquity |
| antiquenoun | In general, anything very old; specifically: |
| classical eranoun | Any of several periods of history noted for a particular style of art, architecture, literature or music termed classical |
| minoannoun | Of or relating to the civilization that developed in Crete from the neolithic period to the Bronze Age (about 3000-1050 B.C.E.). |
| archaic latinnoun | Synonym of Old Latin. |
| mycenaean greeknoun | The most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th to 11th centuries BC, written in Linear B script. |
| late greeknoun | The Greek language as written in Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine period, i.e. from about the late 2nd century AD until about the late 7th century AD. |
| pre-greeknoun | A hypothetical language (or languages) conjectured to have been spoken in prehistoric Greece before the arrival of Proto-Greek speakers, and used to explain the large number of non-Indo-European words found in Ancient Greek. |
| linear anoun | (archaeology, linguistics) A syllabary used to write the as-yet-undeciphered Minoan language, and an apparent predecessor to other scripts, such as Linear B. |
| protolanguagenoun | Alternative form of proto-language. [(linguistics) A language which is reconstructed by examining similarities in existing languages in order to deduce the form and aspects of a common ancestor language that is no longer known.] |
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