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Ancient Greek
forms of Greek used from around the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE
Details
- Instance of
- language, historical language
- Subclass of
- Hellenic
- Has parts
- Archaic Greek, Classical Greek, Koine Greek, ancient Greek word
- Follows
- Mycenaean Greek
- Followed by
- Modern Greek, Tsakonian, Koine Greek
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Koine Greek
- Ethnologue language status
- 9 Second language only
- has grammatical case
- nominative case, genitive case, accusative case, dative case, vocative case
- has grammatical mood
- indicative, subjunctive, imperative, optative
- has paradigm class
- first declension in Ancient Greek, second declension in Ancient Greek, third declension in Ancient Greek
- has tense
- pluperfect, aorist, present tense
- indigenous to
- Ancient Greece, Mediterranean Region
- linguistic typology
- subject–verb–object, nominative–accusative language, fusional language
- native label
- Ἀρχαία Ἑλληνική
- related category
- Category:Ancient Greek pronunciation
- replaced by
- medieval Greek
- replaces
- Mycenaean Greek
- short name
- qədim yunanca, greka
- studied by
- Greek studies, classics, classical philology
- topic's main category
- Category:Ancient Greek
- Wikimedia language code
- grc
- writing system
- Greek alphabet, Linear B
Works in this collection (60)
Connected on Wikidata
Subject of
- A Greek–English Lexicon
- Etymologicum Magnum
- Diccionario Griego-Español
- Etymologicum Genuinum
- Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache
- Kadmos
- Instruction in Ancient Greek
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Greek Language
- A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges
- Early Greek Relative Clauses
- dictionary of the Ancient Greek language
- LSJ Wiki