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grcAncient Greek  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, (known as Archaic), c. 5th–4th centuries BC (Classical), and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD (Hellenistic) of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek. The language of the Hellenistic phase is known as Koine (common) or Biblical Greek, the language from the late period onward has no considerable difference from Medieval Greek. Koine is regarded as a separate historical stage of its own, although in its earlier form it closely resembles the Classical. Prior to the Koine period, Greek of the classic and earlier periods included several regional dialects.

Entry terms

  • Ancient Greek language
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453)
  • Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • grc

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • grc

ISO 639-3 code

  • grc

Notation

  • grc

In other languages

  • Grec ancien

    French

  • grec ancien
  • grec ancien (jusqu'à 1453)
  • Altgriechisch

    German

  • Altgriechische Sprache
  • greco antico

    Italian

  • Lingua greca antica
  • Portuguese

  • grego clássico
  • Língua grega antiga
  • Griego antiguo

    Spanish

  • griego antiguo

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/grc

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