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  2. Greek language - Wikipedia

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    Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC, [18] or possibly earlier. [19] The earliest written evidence is a Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, [20] making Greek the world's oldest recorded living language. [21]

  3. History of Greek - Wikipedia

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    The Proto-Greek language was the most recent common ancestor of all Greek dialects. Proto-Greek split off from its nearest Indo-European relatives sometime during the European Bronze Age (c. 3rd millennium BC) and possibly even earlier, though it is unknown whether the characteristic Greek sound-changes occurred within the Greek peninsula or if Proto-Greek speakers themselves migrated into Greece.

  4. Ancient Greek - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek was a pluricentric language, divided into many dialects.The main dialect groups are Attic and Ionic, Aeolic, Arcadocypriot, and Doric, many of them with several subdivisions.

  5. History of the Greek alphabet - Wikipedia

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    In some, but not all, Greek dialects, additional letters were created to represent aspirated versions of Κ and Π (an aspirated version of Τ already existed as described above) and combinations of Κ and Π with Σ. There was some variation between dialects as to the symbols used: [kʰ] could be Κ, ΚΗ, Ψ, or Χ [pʰ] could be Π, ΠΗ, or Φ

  6. Ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Like poetry, Greek prose had its origins in the archaic period, and the earliest writers of Greek philosophy, history, and medical literature all date to the sixth century BC. [102] Prose first emerged as the writing style adopted by the presocratic philosophers Anaximander and Anaximenes —though Thales of Miletus , considered the first Greek ...

  7. Greek language question - Wikipedia

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    The Greek language question (Greek: το γλωσσικό ζήτημα, to glossikó zítima) was a dispute about whether the vernacular of the Greek people (Demotic Greek) or a cultivated literary language based on Ancient Greek (Katharevousa) should be the prevailing language of the people and government of Greece.

  8. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    based on Loglan, created by the Logical Language Group 1999: Slovio: created by Mark Hučko 2001: Atlantean: Atlantis: The Lost Empire: created by Marc Okrand: 2004: Ithkuil: created by John Quijada 2005: Na'vi: Avatar: created by Dr. Paul Frommer and James Cameron: 2009: Dothraki: created by George R. R. Martin and David J. Peterson for Game ...

  9. Greek alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to have developed distinct letters for consonants as well as vowels. [5]