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The verb to be in Greek
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Old Athenian
They seems to be remnants of Old Greek spoken in the region of Attica,Boeotia and southern Euboea before the advent of Arvanite -before 1300 AD ,that is. After the proclamation of the Greek Revolution these dialects began to decrease significantly and eventually were entirely replaced by common Greek.
Old Athenian spoken in Athens until 1833 and at Aegina until the beginning of the 20th century.The dialect of Cumae and Megara are probably still spoken by some old people.
some characteristics
In the variety of Cymae ts or ch is used instead of common Greek k ,same as in the island dialects.
A key feature of these dialects was the use of Byzantine ου (u) (which was pronounced like the French u as in measure) instead of common Greek i.Other characteristics was the pronounciation of k as ts before i, e - a phaenomeno reminiscent of Italian.
example:
Modern Greek συκιά sykia
old Athenian-σουκέα sukea
الأحد، 2 يناير 2022
Greek numbers
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Buying stuff in Greek.
Directions in Greek
الاثنين، 3 مايو 2021
Meeting people in Greek
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Greetings in Greek.
Core phrases in Greek.
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Greek Core Phrases
Γειά σας.
Ya sas.
Hello.
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Greek has a very old written tradition. It is the oldest recorded European language and one of the oldest written languages in the world along with Ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, and Chinese.
The first text in the Greek language dates back to 1800 B.C. and it is written in the Linear B syllabary used by the Myceneans who adopted it from the Minoan Linear A used to record an unknown language.

Clay tablet in Linear B script.
After a centuries-long Dark Ages period (Bronze Age Collapse) with no written records, Greek literary production boomed when Greeks adopted and modified the Phoenician alphabet at about the 8th Century B.C.
The great innovation was that they added vowels to the original Phoenician alphabet to suit the needs of their own language, thus creating the first truly phonetic alphabet—one sound, one letter.

The Dipylon vase inscription, the oldest known in the new Greek alphabet (8th c. B.C.)
Greek Today
Greek is spoken by about 15 million people mainly in Greece and Cyprus, also in Albania, some Greek-speaking enclaves in southern Italy, Ukraine, Russia, and the Greek diaspora worldwide in Germany, Australia, the US, the UK, France, and many other countries.
Greece is a small Balkan country but with a varying landscape. A very long coastline, thousands of islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, and lots of mountains in the mainland.
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