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Ancient Greek

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forms of Greek used from around the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE

ancient Greek literature

literature written in ancient Greece or in the Ancient Greek language

Mycenaean Greek

most ancient attested form of the Greek language from the 16th to 12th centuries BC

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linguistic deviation

Ancient Greek dialect

rough breathing

diacritical mark used in polytonic orthography

A solecism is a phrase that transgresses the rules of grammar. The term is often used in the context of linguistic prescription; it also occurs descriptively in the context of a lack of idiomaticness.

smooth breathing

diacritical marks used in polytonic Greek, Coptic, and old Cyrillic orthographies

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A Greek–English Lexicon

standard lexicographical work of the Ancient Greek language

pre-Greek substrate

unknown pre-Indo-European language(s) spoken in prehistoric Greece before the coming of the Proto-Greek language in the Greek peninsula during the Bronze Age

Ancient Greek grammar

grammar for Ancient Greek

polytonic orthography of Greek

orthographical conventions of Greek, modern and historical

Inscriptiones Graecae

academic project by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften; its aim is to collect and publish all known ancient inscriptions from the mainland and islands of Greece

In linguistics, a proparoxytone (, ) is a word with either stress (in stress-based languages) or a high accent (in languages with a pitch accent) on the antepenultimate syllable (that is, the third-to-last syllable). Examples of this in English are the words words "cinema" and "operational". It contrasts with paroxytone (on the penultimate second-to-last syllable), and oxytone (on the ultimate last syllable).

diacritic mark in the Greek alphabet

In linguistics, an oxytone (; , , ) is a word with either stress (in stress-based languages) or a high accent (in languages with a pitch accent) on the ultimate syllable (that is, the last syllable). Examples of this in English are the words correct and reward.

Ancient Greek phonology

sounds of the Ancient Greek language

Psilosis () is the sound change in which the Greek language lost its consonant sound during antiquity. The term comes from the Greek psílōsis ("smoothing, thinning out") and is related to the Greek term for smooth breathing (ψιλή psilḗ), the sign for the absence of initial in a word. Dialects that have lost are called psilotic.

Ancient Greek noun

noun in the Ancient Greek language

Ancient Greek verbs

Linguistic component of Ancient Greek

ancient Greek accent

Alphabets of Asia Minor

alphabets in use in Iron Age Anatolia

ancient Greek phonetic process

Greek epigraphy

the study of Greek inscriptions, or epigraphs, to clarify their meanings, classify their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and draw conclusions about the writing and the writers

It's all Greek to me

inscription indicating a transcriber was unable to parse a presumed foreign-language text