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Name:
Middle Greek
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Byzantine Greek; Medieval Greek
Code:
qgk
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
LINGUIST List
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Dialect:
Koine Greek (grc-koi)
Child Languages:
Greek; Greek (Modern); Modern Greek; Grec; Graecae; Romaic; Neo-Hellenic; Ellinika; Greco; Neu-Griechisch (ell)
Yevanic; Judeo-Greek; Yevanitika (yej)
Child Dialects:
Old Athenian (ell-oat)
Maniot; Maniote (ell-man)
Brief Description:
The Greek language spoken during the middle ages, from approximately the fall of the Western Roman Empire until the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 AD. The language is characterized by dialects which show various stages of change in the path of the Greek language from the Koine used during the time of the Roman Empire to the Modern Greek language. 500 AD to 1500 AD
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Map of Middle Greek
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