Infobox Language name Greek nativename lang el br transl el ISO Ell nik pronunciation IPA el ... cite web url http www.ethnologue.org show language.asp?code ell title Greeklanguage publisher SIL .... The Greeklanguage holds an important place in the histories of Europe, the more loosely defined ... poems Iliad and Odyssey . Greek was also the language in which many of the foundational texts ... in the language in various Christian denominations particularly the Eastern Orthodox and the Greek ... scientific vocabulary . Over fifty thousand English language English words are derived from the Greeklanguage. Citation needed date May 2010 History Main History of GreekGreek has been spoken ... modifications, it is still used today. Periods The Greeklanguage is conventionally divided into the following periods Proto Greeklanguage Proto Greek the last unrecorded but assumed ancestor of all ... language Mycenaean Greek the language of the Mycenaean Greece Mycenaean civilization . It is recorded .... Ancient Greek in its various Ancient Greek dialects dialects was the language of the Archaic Greece ... in the city of Rome and Koine Greek became a first or second language in the Roman Empire . The origin ... Classical Greek or even New Testament Greek , as it was the original language the New Testament was written ... classical Attic. Much of the written Greek that was used as the official language of the Byzantine ... century. It is the language used by modern Greeks and apart from Standard Modern Greek, there are several Varieties of Modern Greek dialects of it. Diglossia History of the Greeklanguage The tradition ..., administrative and scientific purposes in the newly formed modern Greek state. The Greeklanguage ... unity and continuing identity between the various stages of the Greeklanguage is often emphasised ... of a new language emerging. Greek speakers today still tend to regard literary works of ancient Greek ... name bartleby cite web url http www.bartleby.com 65 gr Greeklan.html title Greeklanguage work Columbia ... more details
The Center for the Greeklanguage lang el is a cultural and educational organization, which aims at promoting the Greeklanguage and culture of Greece culture . It is based in Thessaloniki , with also an office in Athens . The Center for the GreekLanguage acts as a coordinating, advisory and strategic organ of the Greek Ministry of Education on matters of language education and policy. It is linked to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki . Identity The goals of the organization entail the fostering and promotion of the Greeklanguage within and outside Greece through this, the reinforcement of the national identity of the Greeks in the diaspora the organisation of the teaching of Greek to foreigners in Greece and abroad the support of the teachers of the Greeklanguage in Greece and abroad the production of teaching materials, and anything else which contributes to the promotion and dissemination of the Greeklanguage generally External links http www.greeklanguage.gr Center for the Greeklanguage Official website International cultural promotion organizations Greeklanguage Category Cultural organizations Category Greek culture Category Greeklanguage Category Language education Category Educational institutions established in 1994 Category Organizations based in Greece Category Thessaloniki es Centro para la Lengua Griega fr Centre pour la langue grecque ... more details
Infobox Language name Romano Greek nativename speakers 30 in 2000 ref name Ethno http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code rge Ethnologue ref familycolor Mixed states Greece iso3 rge Romano Greek also referred to as Hellenoromani lang gr is a nearly extinct mixed language referred to as Para Romani in Romani linguistics , spoken by the Romani people Romani people in Greece that arose from language contact between Romani language Romani speaking people and the Greeklanguage . Typologically the language is structured on Greek with heavy lexical borrowing from Romani. ref name Ethno References Reflist Roma stub Category Endangered languages of Europe Category Romani language Category Languages of Greece ru ... more details
Infobox Language name Greek Sign Language states Greece signers 42,600 1986 familycolor Sign fam1 French Sign Language family French Sign fam2 French Sign Language FSL ASL mix iso2 sgn iso3 gss Greek Sign Language lang el is the sign language of the Greece Greek deaf community. It has been Legal recognition of sign languages legally recognised as the official language of the Deaf Community in Greece by Law 2817 in 2000. The Greek Sign Language is estimated to be used by about 40,600 signers. ref cite web title An Environment for Deaf Accessibility to Educational Content url http www.esstt.rnu.tn utic tica2007 sys files medias docs p23.pdf accessdate 2010 03 18 author Eleni Efthimiou coauthors Stavroula Evita Fotinea work Proceeding of the First International Conference in Information and Communication Technology & Accessibility April 12 14, 2007, Hammamet TUNISIA publisher Mohamed JEMNI editor location Tynisia ref Greek SL formed in the 1950s when American Sign Language and French Sign Language came together, with admixture from indigenous sign. References reflist Category Sign languages Category Languages of Greece Greece stub pt L ngua de sinais grega ... more details
For list of newspapers in Greece and Cyprus, please see their separate articles List of newspapers in Greece List of newspapers in Cyprus The following are newspapers in the Greek language published in North America Ethnikos Kyrix Ethnikos Kyrex , began in the New York Metro area, North America Ethnikos Typos Greek Canadian Press , also in English Vima See also List of newspapers Expand list date August 2008 Category Newspapers published in Greece ... more details
Refimprove date February 2009 The Proto Greeklanguage is the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of GreeklanguageGreek , including Mycenaean Greeklanguage Mycenaean , the ancient Greek classical Greek ancient Greek dialects dialects Attic Greek Attic Ionic Greek Ionic , Aeolic Greek Aeolic , Doric Greek Doric and Doric Greek Northwest Greek Northwest Greek , and ultimately Koine Greek Koine , Medieval Greek Byzantine and modern Greek . Some scholars would include the fragmentary ancient Macedonian language , either as descended from an earlier Proto Hellenic language, or by definition including it among the descendants of Proto Greek as a Hellenic language and or a Greek dialect. ref http multitree.org trees Indo European 20Composite 730997 ref Proto Greek would have been spoken in the late 3rd millennium BC , most probably in the Balkans . The unity of Proto Greek would have ended as Greeks Hellenic migrants, speaking the predecessor of the Mycenaean language , entered ... Sanskrit suggest that both Proto Greek and Proto Indo Iranian language Proto Indo Iranian were still ... Greek is a Centum language, which would place a possible Graeco Aryan protolanguage before Centum ... after it had already become a Centum language . Proto Greek changes The primary sound changes separating Proto Greek from the Proto Indo European language included Debuccalization of s to h in the inter ... before Sonorant resonants and analogously. In Mycenaean Greeklanguage Mycenean Greek , Aeolic ... Greek and Phrygian language Phrygian is the absence of r endings in the Grammatical voice Middle ... into Proto Greek. His reconstruction was ignorant of Mycenaean language Mycenaean and assumes Proto ... language Paleo Balkan languages Pre Greek substrate Proto Indo European language Kafkania pebble ... University Press year 1995 isbn 0 19 508345 8 Greeklanguage periods Greeklanguage DEFAULTSORT Proto GreekLanguage Category Varieties of Greek Category Proto languages Greek Category Bronze Age Greece ... more details
The Greeklanguage question lang el , short was a dispute discussing the question whether the language of the Greek people Dimotiki or a cultivated imitation of Ancient Greek Katharevousa should be the official language of the Greek nation. It was a highly controversial topic ... Greek, but adopted both lexical and morphological features of ancient Greek that the spoken language ... form of diglossia, it is hard to understand the motivation of the Greeklanguage question, as it concerns ... became crucial when it was to be decided which one should be the single language of the modern Greek ... was eventually established as the official language of the Greek State in 1834. ref The phanariots ... 000.pdf 3 1 117 138 . University of Malta. ISSN 10163476. Greeklanguage 1 2 Category Modern Greeklanguage Question Category Spelling reform Category Orthography Category Linguistic purism ... language. The language phenomenon in question which occurs elsewhere in the world is called diglossia ... in the Greek controversy. Linguistic background of the problem While Dimotiki was the mother tongue ... not fit the Modern Greek phonological system. For example, Ancient and Demotic ndr , Katharevousa ... the language of the people mostly consisted of simple sentences, Katharevousa often applied ancient Greek syntax to form sentences which would appear as educated speech, that is, long and complex. Lexical features The proponents of the formal language discarded many popular Greek words that the Greeklanguage had obtained from other languages over time, mainly from the Turkish language Turkish and Latin or Italian language Italian languages, and either replaced them with ancient Greek words or with neologisms . Similarly, words of ancient Greek origin but by now modern in form were archaicised or replaced by their standard ancient Greek equivalents like the Ancient Greek for ... that Katharevousa was only partly intelligible to a Greek without higher education. There was no single ... more details
Infobox Language name Cappadocian region Greece, originally Cappadocia Central Turkey speakers endangered language very few , previously thought to be extinct language extinct familycolor Indo European fam2 Hellenic languages Hellenic fam3 Ionic Greek Ionic fam4 Koine Greek Koine iso2 ine iso3 cpg Cappadocian , also known as Cappadocian Greek or Asia Minor Greek, is a Hellenic languages Hellenic language ... Greece. The Cappadocians rapidly shifted to Standard Modern Greek and their language was thought ... GreekLanguage and Literature at the University of Oxford , based on fieldwork conducted by the author .... Aspects of Bilingualism in the History of the GreekLanguage. J.N. Adams, Mark Janse & Simon Swain ... 22 63 80. DEFAULTSORT Cappadocian GreekLanguage Category Varieties of Modern Greek Category Languages ... their ancestral language fluently. Amongst them are middle aged, third generation speakers who take a very positive attitude towards the language as opposed to their parents and grandparents. The latter are much less inclined to speak Cappadocian and more often than not switch to Standard Modern Greek. A survey of Cappadocian speakers and language use is currently in preparation. History and research Cappadocian evolved out of Byzantine Greek . After the battle of Manzikert in 1071, Cappadocia was cut off from the rest of the Greek speaking world and Turkish became the lingua franca in the region. The earliest records of the language are in the Macaronic language macaronic Persian poems of Jalal ... shifted to Turkish altogether written with the Greek alphabet, Karamanlides Karamanlidika where Greek was maintained Sille, villages near Kayseri, Pharasa town and other nearby villages , it became ... in Medieval or early Modern Cappadocian, as the language was and still is essentially without ... not very accurate. The first reliable grammar of Cappadocian is Modern Greek in Asia Minor ... the pioneering work on Language contact Language Contact , Creolization , and Genetic linguistics ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 The Annual European Student Competition Exploring the Ancient GreekLanguage and Culture is an international competition held in Europe and in Mexico . It takes place yearly, and is to be considered among the most important high school student competitions in classical languages held in Europe. br Organisation This competition is organised by the Greek Ministry of National Education and Religion Religious Affairs , and more specifically the Directorate of International Relations in Education and the Pedagogical Institute. Co organisators are the Hellenic Language Heritage , the Society of Greek Philologists , ref http www.eephil.gr Society of Greek Philologists ref the European Cultural Centre of Delphi , ref http www.eccd.gr European Cultural Centre of Delphi ref the Organization for the Internationalization of the GreekLanguage ref http www.odeg.gr Organization for the Internalization of the GreekLanguage ref and the Pan Hellenic Association of Teachers for the GreekLanguage and Civilization . ref http www.p e f.gr Panhellenic Associations of Teachers for the GreekLanguage ref Aims of the competition The aim of the annual competition is the promotion of classical studies among those students of high schools in whole Europe where the Ancient GreekLanguage ... Greeklanguage as a means of expressing humanitarian ideas and values, in an era, when classical ... en ec category6437.htm Greek Ministry of Education Category Competitions Category Ancient languages de Exploring the Ancient GreekLanguage and Culture fr Exploring the Ancient GreekLanguage ... studies throughout the acquisition and the study of the Ancient Greek world, to highligh the European ... ec category6437.htm Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs ref The participants of the competition are students of the third grade of Greek Lyceums in all European countries, except Greece ... 3rd grade of Greek High schools, except Greece and Cyprus, as well as those of Mexico. br Prizes ... more details
Primary sources date June 2010 orphan date June 2010 The American Foundation for GreekLanguage and Culture is a nonprofit 501 c 3 corporation, incorporated in the State of Florida , whose mission it is to foster the creation of http www.afglc.org ?page ichs Interdisciplinary Centers for Hellenic Studies ICHS at institutions of higher learning. These ICHS centers, of which two have been established thus far http usfweb3.usf.edu absolutenm templates ?a 572&z 38 University of South Florida ICHS and http intraweb.stockton.edu eyos page.cfm?siteID 69&pageID 179 Richard Stockton College ICHS , comprise typically five endowed professorships, with this construct insuring that the host institution will be able to offer Hellenic educational subject matter in perpetuity. External links http www.afglc.org American Foundation for GreekLanguage and Culture website Category 501 c 3 nonprofit organizations Category Non profit organizations based in Florida ... more details
The List of Greeklanguage television channels include the following channels Greece Television in Greece List of television stations Greece Public Channels Ellinik Radiofon a Tile rasi ERT Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation ET1 Greece ET1 formerly known as ERT1, ERT, EIRT New Hellenic Television NET Formerly known as ET2, ERT2, YENED ERT3 ET3 Focus on Northern Greece, but broadcasts nationally. Based in Thessaloniki ERT Digital New terrestrial digital television service Cine Prisma Sport ERT World Worldwide satellite service, broadcasting free to air in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia and via subscription in North America Vouli Tileorasi Vouli TV National network with programming produced by the Hellenic Parliament br In addition, ERT rebroadcasts several satellite broadcasters in various large cities in Greece. These include CNN International TV5MONDE EuroNews Eurosport Audio dubbed in Greek Rai Uno RAI UNO Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation RIK Sat Private Channels Mega Channel Alpha TV Alter Channel ANT1 Antenna TV Makedonia TV Nickelodeon Greece 902 TV MTV Greece Skai TV Star Channel Pay TV Networks Nova Cinema Nova Sports Disney XD Greece Disney XD Disney Channel Greece Disney Channel Universal Channel Greece FX Greece FX Fox Life Greece Fox Crime Greece coming soon on 2011 National Geographic Channel Greece Fox News Baby TV National Geographic Music Nat Geo Music National Geographic Wild Nat Geo Wild National Geographic HD National Geographic Wild HD Satellite Networks Holidays in Greece TV Tourist network MAD Greekz International Channels Alpha TV Alpha Sat North America Alpha TV Alpha Australia Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Africa Alter Channel Alter Globe North America ANT1 20years The Channel North America ANT1 ANT1 Europe Europe ANT1 ANT1 Satellite North and South ... by languageGreek Category Greeklanguage television stations el ..., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Africa Greek Music Television GMtv North America MAD World ... more details
Subclass PA Greeklanguage and literature. Latin language and literature is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system under Library of Congress Classification Class P Language and Literature Class P Language and Literature . This article describes subclass PA. Contents PA 1 199...........Classical philology 201 899......... Greek philology and Greeklanguagelanguage 1000 1179.......Medieval and modern Greeklanguage 2001 2915....... Latin philology and Latin languagelanguage 3000 3049.......Classical literature 3050 4505....... Greek literature 3051 3285......Literary history 3300 3516......Collections 3520 3564...... Criticism , interpretations, etc. 3601 3681...... Translation s 3818 4505......Individual authors 3825 3849..... Aeschylus 3851 3858..... Aesopus Aesop 3875 3879..... Aristophanes 3890 3926..... Aristotle 3949 3964..... Demosthenes 3973 3992..... Euripides 4018 4209..... Homerus Homer 4279 4333..... Plato 4367 4389..... Plutarchus Plutarch 4413 4434..... Sophocles 4452 4486..... Thucydides 4494 4499..... Xenophon 5000 5660....... Byzantine literature Byzantine and modern Greek literature 5301 5637......Individual authors 6000 6971....... Roman literature 6001 6097......Literary history 6100 6140......Collections 6141 6144...... Criticism , interpretation, etc. 6155 6191......Translations 6202 6971......Individual authors 6235 6269..... Julius Caesar Caesar, C. Julius 6278 6370..... Cicero 6393 6444..... Horatius 6482 6496..... Lucretius 6501 6510..... Martialis 6519 6553..... Ovid Ovidius Naso 6568 6609..... Plautus 6611 6637..... Pliny the Elder Plinius 6661 6693..... Seneca the Younger Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 6705 6753..... Tacitus 6755 6785..... Terence 6801 6961..... Virgil 8001 8595.......Medieval and modern Latin literature 8200 8595......Individual authors Sources http www.loc.gov catdir cpso lcco lcco.html Library of Congress Classification Outline Category Library of Congress Classification P PA ... more details
Greece has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature length feature length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non English dialogue. ref name Rules cite web title Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award publisher Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences url http www.oscars.org 80academyawards rules rule14.html accessdate 2008 06 10 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20080112090723 http www.oscars.org 80academyawards rules rule14.html Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2008 01 12 ref It was created for the 29th Academy Awards 1956 Academy Awards , in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non English speaking films, and has been given annually since. For the 78th Academy Awards , Greece selected Nyfes but it was ruled ineligible for being in English. In the 1990s, Greek film law stipulated that the winner of the Greek Film Competition at the Thessaloniki Film Festival would represent Greece at the Oscars the following year. After Greek films that were mostly in English and thus ineligible for the Foreign Language Film award won the award in 2005 and 2007, Greece decided to revise the selection process. Beginning in 2008, the Greek submission is determined by an ad hoc committee appointed under the auspices of the Greek ... diorthosi is greek oscar entry in policy switch 4041095.article ref Submissions The Academy ... their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956. The Foreign Language ... Foreign Language Film List of Academy Award winning foreign language films Cinema of Greece References ... for Best Foreign Film submissions Academy Awards DEFAULTSORT List Of Greek Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film Category Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award submissions ... more details
wiktionarypar greekGreek wiktionarypar Hellenic Wiktionary Greek may refer to anything related to the Greek culture Hellenic Greek Culture . Greek may refer specifically to Greece or specific earlier stages of its history Ancient Greece Medieval Greece disambiguation Ottoman Greece Modern Greek history Modern Greece Greeks , an ethnic group Greeklanguage , or more specifically Mycenaean Greeklanguage Mycenaean Greek , 16th to 11th centuries BC Ancient Greek , c. 1000 330 BC Koine Greek or Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Common, New Testament Greek, c. 330 BC 330 AD Medieval Greek or Byzantine Greek, 330 1453 AD Modern Greek , from 1453 AD Greek alphabet History of Greece Greek history Greek art Culture of Greece Greek culture Other Greek may also refer to Greeks finance , the Greeks are the quantities representing the sensitivities of derivatives the most common of these sensitivities are often denoted by Greek letters Fraternities and sororities , often called the Greek System, at American colleges and universities because many of them are named after Greek letters Greek Theatre Los Angeles Greek TV series Greek TV series , an ABC Family show Greeking inserting dummy text in a computer display or typographic layout Greek love , a term referring variously to male bonding, homosexuality, pederasty and anal sex Greek play Greek play , by Steven Berkoff Greek opera Greek opera 1988 , by Mark Antony Turnage, after Steven Berkoff s play The Greeks , a 1980 play cycle directed by John Barton director John Barton for the Royal Shakespeare Company The Greeks , a 1980 BBC television series featuring Kenneth Dover See also Names of the Greeks Name of Greece reflist disambig af Grieks dubbelsinnig an Griego arc ca Grec desambiguaci ceb Griyego cy Groeg da Gr sk flertydig de Griechisch el es Griego fr Grec gl Grego ia Greco disambiguation os ... Greek sk Gr cky tl Griyego ta th tr Yunan ... more details
about the fictional character the theater Greek Theatre Los Angeles Infobox character name The Greek ... family spouse children relatives footnotes The Greek is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire TV series The Wire , played by actor Bill Raymond . The Greek is the head of an international criminal ... Character profile The Greek publisher HBO accessdate 2006 08 16 url http www.hbo.com thewire cast characters port the greek.shtml ref The Greek is a mysterious figure involved in numerous criminal activities. His given name is never mentioned on the show, and though he is known only as The Greek , he has stated in the episode Port in a Storm that he is not actually Greek. He also is often seen with a kombol i and frequently drinks vodka hinting at possibly a Pontic Greeks Pontic Greek or mixed Pontic origin Stelios Kazantzidis , a Greek singer whose song Efige Efige was on The Wire soundtrack was himself of Pontic Greek extraction . A quiet and unassuming man, the Greek prefers to keep a low ... would conduct business the Greek would listen in quietly at the counter. Nick Sobotka , upon seeing the Greek identify himself, was amazed that the shadowy figure had been in plain sight the entire time. Despite his calm appearance, the Greek is cunning and ruthless, and only interested in facts that make him more money. Series creator David Simon writer David Simon has said that The Greek is an embodiment ... to leave victims headless and handless to hinder identification. The Greek s smuggling operation ... Double G Glekas . The Greek supplies the major drug dealers in East Baltimore with pure cocaine and heroin ... description page at http commons.wikimedia.org wiki Image Thegreeks.png for rationale The Greek began ... belonged to the Greek and the girls were killed by a crewman onboard the vessel that had delivered ... women. The Greek had Sergei track the crewman down, interrogated him personally, and had Vondas ... operation. When police began tracking containers as they left the port, The Greek and Vondas ... more details
Standard registers of the Greeklanguage Attic Greek Antiquity Koine Greek Hellenism Katharevousa Standard Modern Greek See also Greeklanguage question disambig ... more details
Greek phonology is treated under Ancient Greek phonology , discussing the classical language Koine Greek phonology , discussing the developments between Classical and Modern Greek Modern Greek phonology disambig ... more details
Greek Bible may refer to Bible translations by languageGreek Bible translations by languageGreek Septuagint , Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible Old Testament Original Greek version of the New Testament see Category New Testament text types , ancient manuscripts Category Greek New Testament , complete editions Greek Vulgate , the de facto standard bible used in the Greek Liturgy Eastern Greek Orthodox Bible , English translation of the Bible used in the Greek Orthodox Church in English speaking countries The Textus Receptus , the Greek Bible as received in England. See also Greek Orthodox Church es Biblia griega disambig ... more details
Greek Scriptures may refer to The New Testament A translation of any Scripture into the Greeklanguage, but especially the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures , or Old Testament disambig ... more details
Greek numbers may refer to Greek numerals &ndash the system of representing numbers using letters of the Greek alphabet. List of numbers in various languages Indo European languages List of numbers in various languages &ndash the names and symbols for the numbers 0 through 10 in various languages and scripts of the world. disambig Category Greeklanguage ... more details
expert subject multiple Languages Greece date February 2010 History of the Greeklanguage This article is an overview of the history of GreeklanguageGreek . Origins Main Proto Greeklanguage See Hellenic ... of the Greeklanguage. One theory suggests that it originated with a migration of proto Greek speakers into the Greece Greek peninsula , which is dated to any period between 2500 BC and 1700 BC . Another theory maintains that the migration into Greece occurred at a pre proto Greek late PIE stage, and the characteristic Greek sound changes occurred later. Mycenaean Greek The first known script for writing Greek was the Linear B syllabary , used for the archaic Mycenaean language Mycenaean dialect ..., therefore, became the primary literary language of ancient Greece until the ascendancy of Athens in the late fifth century. Doric was standard for Greek lyric poetry, such as Pindar and the choral odes of the Greek tragedians. Attic Greek Attic Greek , a subdialect of Ionic, was for centuries the language ... classical times. Koine Greek Main Koine Greek For centuries, the Greeklanguage had existed in multiple ... conquered, turning Greek into a world language. The Greeklanguage continued to thrive after Alexander ... forms of the language for use by the Greek government, though the Katharevousa movement has left marks in the language. See also History of the Latin language References Geoffrey Horrocks, Greek A History ... A Brief History of the GreekLanguageLanguage histories Greeklanguage DEFAULTSORT History Of Greek Category Greeklanguage Category Language histories Greek ko he ... or nothing has survived to the present day. Since early classical times, Greek has been written in the Greek alphabet . Ancient Greek dialects Main Ancient Greek dialects Ancient Greek In the archaic and classical periods, there were three main dialects of the Greeklanguage Aeolic Greek Aeolic , Ionic Greek Ionic , and Doric Greek Doric , corresponding to the three main tribes of the Greeks ... more details
Macedonian Greek or Greek Macedonian may refer to Something of, from, or related to Macedonia Greece , a region in Greece Macedonians Greeks , the Greek people of Macedonia Greeks in the Republic of Macedonia , those living as a minority in the neighbouring country Varieties of Modern Greek , spoken today in Macedonia, Greece See also Macedonian disambiguation Ancient Macedonians Ancient Macedonian language Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages disambig ... more details
The term Old Greek is sometimes used to describe the Greeklanguage as spoken from Late Antiquity c. AD 400 to around AD 1500. Greek spoken during this period is usually split into Late Greek c. 400 c. 800 Medieval Greek c. 800 c. 1500 Old Greek OG is the Technical terminology technical term for the presumed initial Septuagint Greek translations ref The translators used a form of Koine Greek . ref of the Hebrew Bible ref Thus books or parts of books that are not contained in the Hebrew Bible are not part of the Old Greek, even though they were eventually considered part of the Septuagint. ref for books other than the Pentateuch . ref As early as the second century A.D., Septuagint was used as an umbrella term for the Christian collection s of Jewish scriptures This convenient but potentially misleading use of the term still prevails Since there is no homogeneity among the various translation units of this collection , it is more accurate to speak of the oldest recoverable Greek form of each section book OG Old Greek , which in the Pentateuch is the LXX proper. cite book last Kraft first Robert A. editor first Keith editor last Crim title The Interpreter s Dictionary of the Bible. Supplementary Volume publisher Abingdon Press date 1976 page 811 chapter B. Earlier Greek versions Old Greek isbn br It is probably better to refer to the original translation of books other than the Pentateuch as the Old Greek OG so as to distinguish them from the original translation of the Pentateuch and from the later revisions and new translations. when referring to these initial translations of the Hebrew Bible as a whole, some scholars prefer the combined abbreviation LXX OG as a continual reminder of the diversity that characterizes the corpus. cite book last1 Jobes first1 Karen H. last2 ... 2000 page 32 chapter chapterurl isbn 1842270613 lastauthoramp y ref See also Mycenaean Greeklanguage , also referred to as Old Greek Ancient Greek Proto Greek References reflist disambig ... more details
about the Greek currency the family of fundamental particles in physics Lepton File 5 Greek leptons 1869 1 .jpg thumb 5 Greek leptons 1869 File 5 Greek leptons 1869 2 .jpg thumb 5 Greek leptons 1869 Lepto redirects here. Lepto is sometimes used as a shortened name for Leptospirosis . Lepton pl. Lepta GreeklanguageGreek pl. is the name of various fraction mathematics fraction al units of currency used in the GreeklanguageGreek speaking world from Classical antiquity antiquity until today. The word means small or thin , and during classical Greece classical and Hellenistic times a lepton was always a small value coin, usually the smallest available denomination of another currency. ref name FdC http www.fleur de coin.com currency greek50lepta.asp Fleur de Coin Greek 50 Lepta Coins ref In History of Modern Greece modern Greece , Lepton modern form Lepto, is the name of the 1 100 denomination currency denomination of all the official currencies of the Greek state the Greek phoenix phoenix 1827 1832 , the Greek drachma drachma 1832 2001 and the euro 2002 current the name is the Greek form of euro cent . Its unofficial currency sign is lambda . ref name FdC Until the introduction of the euro , no Greek coin had been minted with a denomination lower than 5 lepta since the late 1870s. References reflist External links http colnect.com en coins list country 1669 sort by catalog code name lepta Greek Lepta Coins Information Category Coins of ancient Greece Category Currencies of Europe money unit stub Greece stub be x old de Lepton M nze it Lepton he ja pl Lepta pt L pton moeda ru sr uk ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group Greek Brazilian br small Greco Brasileiro small image Image Silviosantos.jpg 110px Image Constantine andreou picture.jpg 130px caption small Notable Greek Brazilians br Silvio Santos Constantine Andreou small poptime 50,000 Greek Brazilians ref http www.memorialdoimigrante.org.br historico index.htm Greeks in Brazil ref popplace Brazil Mainly Southeastern Brazil langs Predominantly Portuguese language Portuguese rels Predominantly Roman Catholic Church Catholic , Greek Orthodox related Other White Brazilian , Greek people A Greek Brazilian lang pt Greco brasileiro or Heleno brasileiro is a Brazil ian Citizenship citizen of full, partial or predominantly Greece Greek ancestry or a Greek born person residing in Brazil. The Greeks started immigrating in the end of the 19th and throughout the early and middle 20th century, in an attempt to find a better, more prosperous life, as well as for ideological reasons. The Greek community in Brazil numbers more than 25,000 people. They are located throughout the country, with 20,000 Greeks living in S o Paulo alone. Notable Greek Brazilians Constantine Andreou Miguel Nicolelis Silvio Santos Constantino Tsallis Pandi Cal geras Gerasime Nicolas Bozikis Nicolas Vlavianos Pavlos Papaioannou Antonio Anastasia See also Immigration to Brazil White Brazilian Greek people Greek diaspora Brazilian Greek relations References Reflist http www.mfa.gr www.mfa.gr en US Policy Geographic Regions Latin America Caribbean Bilateral Relations Brazil Bilateral relations between Greece and Brazil Demographics of Brazil Brazil topics Greek diaspora Category Brazilian people of Greek descent Category Ethnic groups in Brazil el ja ... more details
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