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Koine

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lingua francanoun	A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.

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Word	Definition
lingua francanoun	A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.
byzantine greeknoun	Collectively, the continuum of forms of the Greek language as written and spoken during the time of the Byzantine Empire (C.E. 330–1453), preceded by Koine Greek and Early Medieval Greek and succeeded by Late Medieval Greek to Modern Greek. (ISO 639-3 code: grc shared with Classical Greek.)
hellenistic koinenoun	Synonym of Koine (the Greek dialect of Hellenistic times)
hellenistic greeknoun	Synonym of Koine (the Greek language from the time of Alexander the Great)
attic greeknoun	The dialect of Ancient Greek used in Attica, the region surrounding Athens, from 500 to 300 B.C.E., closely related to Ionic Greek and a main contributor to Koine. The language of Thucydides, Plato, Aeschylus, Xenophon, etc.
medieval greeknoun	Collectively, the continuum of forms of the Greek language as written and spoken during medieval times, preceded by Hellenistic Koine Greek and succeeded by Modern Greek
ionic greeknoun	The dialect of Ancient Greek used on Euboea and other islands in the Aegean Sea and in parts of Asia Minor, from around 1000 to 300 B.C.E., closely related to Attic Greek and contributing a great deal to Epic Greek. The language of Herodotus, Hippocrates, and Archilochus.
modern greeknoun	The Greek language as spoken by the Greek people since the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It was written using polytonic script until 1982, when this was officially dropped in favour of monotonic.
demotic greeknoun	The Modern Greek vernacular language. It became the official Modern Greek in 1976 when Katharevousa was replaced, and was written in polytonic script until 1982, and in monotonic script after 1982.
old ionicnoun	The older form of the Greek Ionic dialect, used up until circa 600 BC.
hellenicnoun	Of or relating to Hellas (Greece) or the Hellenes (Greeks).
homeric greeknoun	(linguistics, classics) a dialect of Ancient Greek used by Homer in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns consisting primarily of the Ionian and Aeolic Greek dialects
middle greeknoun	Byzantine Greek
romaicnoun	(obsolete) The modern Greek language, deriving from terminology designating speakers of Greek from the former Byzantine Empire.
mediaeval greeknoun	Alternative spelling of Medieval Greek. [Collectively, the continuum of forms of the Greek language as written and spoken during medieval times, preceded by Hellenistic Koine Greek and succeeded by Modern Greek]
new greeknoun	Synonym of Modern Greek.
new ionicnoun	The later form of the Greek Ionic dialect, used after circa 600 BCE.
ancient greecenoun	The civilization that flourished around the Mediterranean Sea from the 3rd millennium to the 1st century BCE (including the first two European civilizations, Minoan and Mycenaean), known as the cradle of Western civilization.
greeknoun	Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture.
doricnoun	Relating to one of the Greek orders of architecture, distinguished by its simplicity and solidity.