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The view accepted by most scholars today was given by the Greek linguist Georgios Hatzidakis, who showed that despite the "composition of the Four", the "stable nucleus" of Koine Greek is Attic. In other words, Koine Greek can be regarded as Attic with the admixture of elements especially from Ionic, but also from other dialects.
Koine Greek went on to evolve into Medieval/Byzantine Greek — which lasted from roughly the 6th to the 15th centuries CE, when the Byzantine Empire fell — which then became Modern Greek. Today, there are several dialects of Greek spoken, as well as attempts to keep Ancient Greek alive.
Koine, the fairly uniform Hellenistic Greek spoken and written from the 4th century bc until the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian (mid-6th century ad) in Greece, Macedonia, and the parts of Africa and the Middle East that had come under the influence or control of Greeks or of Hellenized rulers.
Ancient Greek and Koine Greek are both forms of the Greek language, but they differ in several key ways. Ancient Greek refers to the language spoken in Greece from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD, encompassing various dialects such as Attic, Ionic, and Doric.
Koine was the most widely spoken form of Greek of late antiquity. Hence it is called koine, which in Greek means “common.” Koine Greek goes by many other names. It is sometimes called Common Attic since it borrows heavily from the Attic (Classical) dialect. More accurately, Koine is a form of Greek, not a dialect. This means it developed ...
Also known as Alexandrian dialect, Biblical, or Koine Greek, it soon became a lingua franca across the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, spoken from the Balkans to Egypt and from Magna Graecia to the fringes of India.
Koine, originally, a contact variety of the Greek language that was spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean region during the Hellenic and Roman empires. The term comes from the Greek koine (“common” or “shared”), although the variety was based chiefly on the Attic Greek dialect.
The Attic Greek dialect was spoken in the region of Attica, which included the city of Athens. It became the basis for the development of the later known Koine Greek, the common language of the Hellenistic period that spread far beyond the boundaries of the Greek mainland.
Koine Greek is a common dialect of the Greek language that emerged after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, serving as the lingua franca throughout the Hellenistic world and into the Roman Empire.
Koine. The fairly uniform spoken Greek that gradually replaced the local dialects after the breakdown of old political barriers and the establishment of Alexander’s empire in the 4th century bce is known as the Koine (hē koinē dialektos ‘the common language’), or “Hellenistic Greek.”