English Explanatory Dictionary

Modern Greek

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The Greek language as spoken by the Greek people since the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It was written using polytonic script until 1982, when this was officially dropped in favour of monotonic.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Modern Greek

Synonyms

Romaic New Greek

Related words

Ancient Greek Byzantine Greek Classical Greek demotic Koine Medieval Greek monotonic polytonic
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