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With the completion of the companion text a course in attic greek ii the student will be prepared to read any ancient author in the original including works in koine greek.
Modern greek dialects except for tsakonian language hail from a common supra region attic greek spoken in late antiquity.
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Attic greek like other dialects was originally written in a local variant of the greek alphabet.
According to the classification of archaic greek alphabets which was introduced by adolf kirchhoff the old attic system belongs to the eastern or blue type insofar as it respectively uses the letters ψ and χ with their classical values ps and kʰ unlike western or red.
Attic greek is the greek dialect of the ancient city state of athens of the ancient dialects it is the most similar to later greek and is the standard form of the language that is studied in ancient greek language courses attic greek is sometimes included in the ionic dialect together attic and ionic are the primary influences on modern greek.
The relative frequency of forms vocabulary and constructions in greek literature informs the organization and order of the text.
With the completion of the companion text a course in attic greek ii the student will be prepared to read any ancient author in the original including works in koine greek.
Today the tsakonian dialect is spoken by 1 200 people in the tsakonian regions of peloponnese where it splits into northern southern and propontis dialects.