![]() Mycenaean Greek, the form of Greek spoken before the Greek Dark Ages, seems to be an early form of Arcadocypriot. Attic τίθησι, Doric τίθητι ('he places')Īttic εἰσί, Doric ἐντί ('they are') Attic εἴκοσι, Doric ϝῑκατι ('twenty')Īrcadocypriot was one of the first Greek dialects in Greece.West Greek, including Doric, did not undergo this sound change in certain cases, and through the influence of Doric neither did the Thessalian and Boeotian dialects of Aeolic. Most of the East Greek dialects palatalized or assibilated /t/ to before /i/. Both Attic and Ionic are used in prose, and Attic is used in most parts of the Athenian tragedies, with Doric forms in the choral sections. A primarily Ionic-Aeolic dialect, for instance, is used in epic poetry, while pure Aeolic is used in lyric poetry. The Ancient Greek literary dialects do not necessarily represent the native speech of the authors that use them. Of the main dialects, all but Arcadocypriot have literature in them. ![]() These form two main groups: East Greek, which includes Arcadocypriot, Aeolic, Ionic, and Attic, and West Greek, which consists of Doric along with Northwest Greek and Achaean. The main dialect groups of Ancient Greek are Arcadocypriot, Aeolic, Doric, Ionic, and Attic. Latin only formed dialects once it was spread over Europe by the Roman Empire these Vulgar Latin dialects became the Romance languages. The pluricentric nature of Ancient Greek differs from that of Latin, which was composed of basically one variety from the earliest Old Latin texts until Classical Latin. The early form of Ionic in which the Iliad and Odyssey were composed ( Homeric), and the Aeolic dialect of Sappho, likely had the phoneme /w/ at the beginnings of words, sometimes represented by the letter digamma ⟨ ϝ⟩, but it had been lost in the standard Attic dialect. For instance, the form of Doric in Crete had a digraph ⟨ θθ⟩, which likely stood for a sound not present in Attic. All Greek dialects derive from Proto-Greek and they share certain characteristics, but there were also distinct differences in pronunciation. ![]()
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