Koine Greek (UK: /ˈkɔɪni/ KOY-nee; US: /ˈkɔɪneɪ/ KOY-nay, /kɔɪˈneɪ/ koy-NAY; Koine Greek: ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, romanized: hē koinè diálektos, lit. 'the common...
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changes during the Koine Greek period concerned vowels: these were the loss of vowel length distinction, the shift of the Ancient Greek system of pitch accent...
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Koine Greek grammar is a subclass of Ancient Greek grammar peculiar to the Koine Greek dialect. It includes many forms of Hellenistic era Greek, and authors...
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Jewish Koine Greek, or Jewish Hellenistic Greek, is the variety of Koine Greek or "common Attic" found in a number of Alexandrian dialect texts of Hellenistic...
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up Koine or Koiné in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The literal meaning of the Greek word κοινή (koinḗ) is "common". It may refer to: Koine Greek, the...
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variety of Koine Greek may be referred to as New Testament Greek or sometimes Biblical Greek. Medieval Greek (also known as Byzantine Greek): the continuation...
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Attic Greek, and its latest form approaches Medieval Greek. There were several regional dialects of Ancient Greek; Attic Greek developed into Koine. Ancient...
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Achaean Doric koine appeared, exhibiting many peculiarities common to all Doric dialects, which delayed the spread of the Attic-based Koine Greek to the Peloponnese...
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In linguistics, a koine or koiné language or dialect (pronounced /ˈkɔɪneɪ/; from Ancient Greek κοινή 'common') is a standard or common dialect that has...
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literary Greek. Likewise, Modern Greek is divided into several dialects, most derived from Koine Greek. The earliest known Greek dialect is Mycenaean Greek, the...
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