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	Ionic Greek
		Ionic Greek was a sub-dialect of the so called Attic-Ionic dialectal group of the ancient Greek language, which was itself a member of the Greek branch of Indoeuropean language family.
		Ionic Greek was mainly spoken in the Greek colonies of Asia Minor.
		Ionic retained the original greek hiatus (after the disappearance of some intervocalic consonants), whereas Attic turned it in a long vowel, according the case, e.g.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/io/Ionic_Greek.html (363 words)

	Greek Language - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Thus from the ancient Aeolis of northern Greece sprang the historical dialects of Thessaly and Lesbos with the neighbouring coast of Asia Minor.
		Of the dialect of Messenia we know little, the long inscription about mysteries from Andania being only about Too B.C. From Argolis there are a considerable number of early inscriptions, and in a later form of the dialect the cures recorded at the temple of Asklepios at Epidaurus present many points of interest.
		Dorian dialects illustrate early the passing of the old aspirate 0, the sound of which was like the final tin English bit, into a sound like the English th in thin, pith, which it still retains in modern Greek.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Greek_Language (8370 words)

	Greek Language - Search View - MSN Encarta
		The Doric dialect, originally spoken in northern Greece, largely supplanted the Arcado-Cyprian dialect in the Pelopónnisos and came to be spoken also in the southern Cyclades (Kikládhes), on the island of Crete, and in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, Sicily, and Italy.
		Aeolic was spoken principally in the districts of Aeolis, Thessaly (Thessalia), and Boeotia.
		The Ionic dialect was spoken on many of the islands of the Aegean and on most of the western shore of Asia Minor.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552508__1/Greek_Language.html (1768 words)

	Homer - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Homeric dialect has passed into New Ionic and Attic by gradual but ceaseless development of the same kind as that which brought about the change from Vedic to classical Sanskrit, or from old high German to the present dialects of Germany.
		The effect of dialect on style was always recognized in Greece, and the dialect which had once been adopted by a particular kind of poetry was ever afterwards adhered to.
		The use of that dialect (instead of Aeolic) by the Boeotian poet Hesiod, in a kind of poetry which was not of the Homeric type, tends to the conclusion that the literary ascendancy of the epic dialect was anterior to the Iliad and Odyssey, and independent of the influence exercised by these poems.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HO/HOMER.htm (17100 words)

	The Ionic presence
		The Ionic strongholds were the Chalkidike Peninsula and the island of Thasos, whence the Ionic dialect was also introduced to the shores of the Strymonic Gulf.
		The Ionic influence, which increased during the Persians' expansion, probably contributed to the introduction and prevalence of the eastern Ionic alphabet in Macedonia.
		Philip II's capture of Amphipolis and its incorporation in the Macedonian state led to the amalgamation of north-western and Ionian linguistic traditions in the melting-pot of the 'koine' ("common" language), which was based on the Attic speech and was already being formed at the close of the 5th century BC.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /HellenicMacedonia/en/B1.1.2.2.html (145 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		dialect variety of a language used by a group of speakers within a particular speech community.
		Dialects are groups of idiolects with a common core of similarities in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.
		Assyrian language East Semitic dialect that evolved from Akkadian after 1950 BC The term Assyrian is sometimes incorrectly used for the Akkadian language as a whole because the first inscriptions in Akkadian to be found in modern times were discovered in the region that was Assyria in antiquity.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=dialect&StartAt=21 (667 words)

	Bin's On-Line Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Homeric poems are written in what is designated old Ionic, as distinguished from new Ionic, or Attic, the dialect of all cultivated Greeks in the period of Athenian prosperity and glory.
		Ionic, or Ionian, mode (Mus.), an ancient mode, supposed to correspond with the modern major scale of C. Ionic sect, a sect of philosophers founded by Thales of Miletus, in Ionia.
		Ionic type, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the following line).
	language.bin.org /ref/dict/?t=mode (945 words)

	Eponymous Archons, Greek Dialects, and Syracuse
		The Ionic dialect of Athens, Attic, is distinctive.
		This contrasts with haméra in Doric and hêmérê (or êmérê) in the Ionic of Ionia.
		Surrounded by Doric and Northwestern, Arcadian is nevertheless similar to the dialect of Greek spoken in Cyprus.
	www.friesian.com /archon.htm (1501 words)

	Ionic Greek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The dialect was soon spread by Ionian colonization to areas in the northern Aegean, the Black Sea, and the western Mediterranean.
		Ionic dialect is generally divided into two major time periods, Old Ionic (or Old Ionian) and New Ionic (or New Ionian).
		In Ionic, the shift from long alpha to eta occurs in almost all words, whereas in Attic it does not occur after eta, iota, or rho.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ionic_dialect (395 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The main 3 dialects are the Ionic, Doric and Aeolic dialect and all were spoken during the classical period (around 500 BC).
		In later centuries the Attic dialect was considered to be the high point of the Greek language, and authors often tried to write in Attic Greek.
		However, despite efforts to generalize its usage, the dialects of demotic Greek were still spoken by most of the population and the strange phenomenon of two versions of Greek simultaneously existing (diglossia, i.e.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/kapparis/GreekLanguage.html (449 words)

	Greek
		The deciphering (1952) of the so-called Linear B script, examples of which were found on tablets during the excavations made in Crete and on the mainland of Greece after 1900, revealed it as an ancestor (1500-1400 BC) of Arcado-Cyprian.
		The Doric dialect, originally spoken in northern Greece, largely supplanted the Arcado-Cyprian dialect in the Peloponnese and came to be spoken also in the southern Cyclades, on the island of Crete, and in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, Sicily, and Italy.
		Aeolic was spoken principally in the districts of Aeolis, Thessaly, and Boeotia.
	thor.prohosting.com /~linguist/greek.htm (2420 words)

	Greek Alphabet and Language
		The Arcado-Cyprian dialect, about which very little is known, is the descendant of a form spoken in Mycenaean times in at least the Peloponnese and some of the southern islands.
		The deciphering (1952) of the so-called Linear B script, examples of which were found on tablets during the excavations made in Crete and on the mainland of Greece after 1900, revealed it as an ancestor (1500-1400 BCE) of Arcado-Cyprian.
		With the conquests of Alexander the Great and the extension of Macedonian rule in the 4th century BCE, a shift of population from Greece proper to the Greek settlements in the Middle East occurred.
	myweb.absa.co.za /dannyza/html/religion/biblicalarch/greekalpha.html (1222 words)

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		Thus, the Ionic dialect was spoken in Oropos, Euboea, the Cyclades, the Ionian Dodecapolis on the Asia Minor coast and the islands opposite it (Chios, Samos etc.).
		One of the earliest characteristics of the Doric dialect is the retention of numerous archaisms in its vocabulary, such as the verb βλώσκω, of which the past participle έμολον was immortalized in the well-known phrase μολών λαβέ.
		The Mycenaean dialect, which ceased to be either spoken or written after the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces, is a relative of the Proto-Arcadiocyprot and presents close similarities with the Ionic dialect and the artificial dialect of the Homeric poems.
	www.elia.org.gr /default.fds?langid=2&pagecode=14.02.01 (4786 words)

	Aoidoi: Greek Dialects - Where to Start
		Attic is the dialect most widely used for teaching beginners, in part due to romanticism surrounding the cultural flowering of Athens at the height of its power, but also the substantial number of works in it.
		The Lesbian poets Sappho and Alcaeus are the main representatives of the Aeolic dialect.
		New Ionic is the language of Herodotus, Hippocrates, the pre-socratics, and forms the base for a number of poets, such as Archilochus and Anacreon.
	www.aoidoi.org /dialects.html (2148 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ionic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Olbia, Ionic Greek colony of Miletus, founded at the beginning of the 6th cent.
		According to tradition he was the builder of the original archaic Ionic temple of Artemis at Ephesus in Asia Minor (550 BC).
		He was also a poet, and some of his patriotic verse in the Ionic dialect is extant.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ionic (664 words)

	Chapter Involucret <i>to</i> Ionic of I by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians; Ionic.
		Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century.
		A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, — that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, — that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1200/23059/6.html (288 words)

	Encyclopedia
		They were written in the dialect of the Greek language later called Ionic, with an admixture of the Aeolic dialect.
		Works and Days, composed like the Homeric epics in the Ionic dialect with some admixture of Aeolic, is the first Greek poem to forsake legendary subject matter in favor of a theme drawn from everyday life, the experiences and thoughts of a Boeotian farmer.
		The Koine dialect is distinct from the one used by the classical Greek writers and their imitators, the so-called Atticists, the best of whom was the satirist Lucian, author of Dialogues of the Dead, Dialogues of the Gods, and True History, the latter a comic narrative work.
	history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..gr088600.a#FWNE.fw..g... (5760 words)

	Detail Page
		The differences between the dialects were fairly small, and speakers of one dialect could be understood by speakers of another.
		Other dialects are categorized as East Greek: Ionic was spoken in the Ionic colonies of Asia Minor (Ionia), Euboea and some Aegean islands, with its offshoot, Attic, spoken in Attica and Athens.
		Dialects used by authors were not necessarily their native tongue or that of the city in which they wrote, but that of the genre.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=HLAG0561 (575 words)

	Ionic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		In Greek and Latin prosody, an Ionic foot is a foot that consists of two long syllables followed by two short ('''major''' or greater ionic) or two short followed by two long ('''minor''' or smaller ionic).
		An Ionic metre is a metre that consists of Ionic feet.
		In typography, Ionic type is a typeface distinguished by prominent serifs and a high degree of legibility.
	ionic.iqnaut.net (244 words)

	Introducing Ancient Greek Philosophy (IAGP)
		Ionic was the dialect of science and philosophy till the time of the Peloponnesian War, and there is no reason to suppose the early Pythagoreans used any other.
		Diels says that Philolaus and then Archytas were the first Pythagoreans to use the dialect of their homes; but Philolaus can hardly be said to have had a home, and it is hard to see why an Achaean refugee at Thebes should write in Doric.
		Nor did Archytas write in the Laconian dialect of Taras, but in what may be called "common Doric," and he is a generation later than Philolaus, which makes a great difference.
	faculty.evansville.edu /tb2/courses/phil211/burnet/ch7.htm (7269 words)

	Macedonian Heritage - Unpublished Academic Literature: Philology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Sehidou, Irini, “The Indirect Borrowings of the Dendropotamos Gypsy Dialect from Greek in the Context of Balkan Isosemy” MA 1998
		The final conclusion of the study is that even in the early theory of motion, the genesis and deterioration in sublunar space and, consequently, the natural motion of the four elements, is caused directly by the concentric spheres, that is by the aether that is the main constituent of their "matter".
		The dialect of Thasos, a Parian colony from the early seventh century bc, belongs to the Central Ionic dialect.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /UnpubAcedLit/depPhilology.html (7650 words)

	index.html
		The major feature of the Ionic order are the volutes of its capital, which have been the subject of much theoretical and practical discourse, based on a brief and obscure passage in Vitruvius [1].
		The only tools required were a straightedge, a right angle, string (to establish half-lengths) and a compass.
		From the 17th century onwards, a much admired and copied version of Ionic was that which could be seen in the temple called that of "Fortuna Virilis" in Rome, first clearly presented in a detailed engraving in Antoine Desgodetz, Les edifices antiques de Rome (Paris 1682).
	www.ionic549.ca (896 words)

	Greek Dialects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The principal divisions of Greek dialect are between Aeolic, Ionic, and Doric.
		This dialect group defines a series of closely related dialects spoken by Athenians and the Ionians occupying islands in the Aegean and the coast of modern day Turkey, but also includes several dialects spoken by peoples on the Aegean coast of the Greek mainland.
		This defines the dialects spoken by Greeks occupying the north and central islands of the Aegean, such as Lesbos.
	www.greek-language.org /greek/dialects.asp (402 words)

	Hippocrates Collected Works I
		These facts seem to show that, when Ionic became the medium of scientific prose, it lost touch gradually with the spoken speech and assimilated itself to the predominant Attic, and later on possibly to the ÎºÎ¿Î¹Î½á½µ.
		It retained just enough Ionic to keep up the tradition and to conform to convention.
		The later scribes, under the mistaken impression that the texts before them had been atticized, restored what they considered to be the ancient forms, often with disastrous results.
	icarus.umkc.edu /sandbox/dh/HippocratesLoeb1/page.lxii.php (260 words)

	SparkNotes: The Odyssey: Context
		Like the Iliad, the Odyssey was composed primarily in the Ionic dialect of Ancient Greek, which was spoken on the Aegean islands and in the coastal settlements of Asia Minor, now modern Turkey.
		More likely, however, the poet chose the Ionic dialect because he felt it to be more appropriate for the high style and grand scope of his work.
		Slightly later Greek literature suggests that poets varied the dialects of their poems according to the themes that they were treating and might write in dialects that they didn’t actually speak.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/odyssey/context.html (760 words)

	The Greek Language
		The Aeolic dialect, which was spoken in NW Asia Minor, the NE Aegean islands, in Arkadia in the central Peloponnese, in parts of Viotia (around Thebes), and in Cyprus.
		The Doric dialect was spoken in western Greece (Epiros, Aetolia, Acarnania), the southern and eastern Peloponnese, Crete, Dodecanese islands, Corcyra (Corfu), Lefkada, Sicily, and the Black Sea coastal colonies.
		The Ionic dialect was in use in Attica, Euboea, the greater part of the coast of Asia Minor, the coast of northern Greece (Macedonia, Thrace), and most of the Aegean islands.
	www.greeklandscapes.com /travel/language.html (1191 words)

	A history of Greek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		A number of dialects of greek arose during this time, but the most important and dominating one proved to be the Attic dialect, the one spoken in Athens.
		However, the Ionic style became important too and the two fused to become the standard for orators and philosophy.
		The dialects spoken in these areas became the national language, and the language spoken in almost all greek societies.
	www.agrino.org /greeklang/history.html (709 words)

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