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koi-NAY
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the common dialect of ancient Greece; a common dialect that is adopted by a larger region
1921Language: An Introduction to the Study of SpeechAs the cultural supremacy of Athens grew, its dialect, the Attic, spread at the expense of the rest, until, in the so-called Hellenistic period following the Macedonian conquest, the Attic dialect, in the vulgarized form known as the 'Koine,' became the standard speech of all Greece.1965The Source...for the next seven hundred years everyone from Sparta to India experienced Greek culture and most spoke the Koine, a Greek dialect common to all countries…2003The First Book of FactoidsThe Bible contains words in Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek.Labels: Edward Sapir, James A. Michener, Sam Vaknin
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