Key facts
- Region
- Attica , Macedon , and a number of the Aegean Islands
- Era
- c. 500–300 BC; evolved into Koine
- Language family
- Indo-European Hellenic Greek Attic– Ionic Attic Greek
- Early form
- Proto-Greek
- Writing system
- Greek alphabet , Old Attic alphabet
- Iso 639 3
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- Linguist list
- grc-att
- Glottolog
- atti1240
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dialect
- Subclass of
- Ancient Greek
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- dialect of
- Ancient Greek
- Commons category
- Attic Greek
- topic's main category
- Category:Attic Greek
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Encyclopedic overview
Distribution of Greek dialects in Magna Graecia (Southern Italy and Sicily) in the classical period.
Attic Greek is the Greek dialect of the ancient region of Attica, including the polis of Athens. Often called Classical Greek, it was the prestige dialect of the Greek world for centuries and remains the standard form of the language that is taught to students of Ancient Greek. As the basis of the Hellenistic Koine, it is the most similar of the ancient dialects to later Greek. Attic is traditionally classified as a member or sister dialect of the Ionic branch.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Attic Greek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.