| Aeolic |
an ancient dialect |
| Ancient Greek |
[not yet ready] |
| Arcado-Cypriot |
an ancient dialect |
| Attic |
the ancient language of the Athenians |
| Demotic Greek |
[not yet ready] |
| English |
the second language of South Cyprus |
| Etruscan |
a script developed from Greek in 690 BC |
| Greek |
the national language of Greece. It is spoken by
about 12 million people. See also Ancient Greek, Katharevousa, Late Greek, and Modern
Greek |
| Ionic |
an ancient dialect |
| Katharevousa |
[not yet ready] |
| Late Greek |
[not yet ready] |
| Linear A |
a syllabic script developed by the Cretans, found
mainly on clay tablets. Syllabic script is halfway between an alphabet and a hieroglyphic
system such as that used in Egypt. Linear A has not yet been deciphered. |
| Linear B |
the first Greek script, produced by the Mycenaeans
and found on tablets at Knossos and
on mainland Greece. Linear B was deciphered in 1952 by Michael
Ventris, but the tablets have not proved to be very
interesting because they are mostly just inventories of commodities stored in the palaces. |
| MG |
abbreviaiton for Modern
Greek |
| Mirambel |
the author of a grammar
of Greek published in 1959 |
| Modern Greek |
[not yet ready] |
| Pring |
the author of a 1950
grammar of Modern Greek |
| SMG |
Standard Modern Greek |
| Standard Modern Greek |
the language spoken and written by moderately
educated people in the large Urban centres of Greece |
| Thumb |
the author of a pioneering work published in 1895
describing the speech of less educated Greeks |
| Triandaphyllis |
the author of Grammar (published 1941)
describing the language of Educated Greeks |