Lesbian Greek dialect

E106728

Aeolic Greek variety ancient Greek dialect

Lesbian Greek dialect is an ancient Aeolic variety of the Greek language historically spoken on the island of Lesbos and known from the poetry of Sappho and Alcaeus.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Lesbian Aeolic	2
Lesbian Greek	2
Lesbian Greek dialect canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Aeolic Greek variety ⓘ ancient Greek dialect ⓘ
attestedIn	inscriptions from Lesbos ⓘ papyrus fragments of lyric poetry ⓘ
attestedInWorksOf	Alcaeus of Mytilene ⓘ Sappho ⓘ
center	Mytilene ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Aeolic Greek ⓘ surface form: Boeotian Greek
differsFrom	Attic Greek ⓘ Doric Greek ⓘ Ionic Greek ⓘ
era	6th century BCE ⓘ 7th century BCE ⓘ Archaic Greek period ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Lesbian Greek dialect ⓘ surface form: Lesbian Aeolic Lesbian Greek dialect ⓘ surface form: Lesbian Greek
hasCorpusType	fragmentary textual evidence ⓘ
hasFeature	Aeolic metrical forms in lyric poetry ⓘ Aeolic morphological forms ⓘ Aeolic vocalism ⓘ distinct personal pronoun forms ⓘ distinct treatment of digamma ⓘ distinct verbal endings ⓘ retention of original long alpha where Attic-Ionic has eta ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	Aeolic first person plural endings ⓘ
hasNotableAuthor	Alcaeus of Mytilene ⓘ Sappho ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	use of -oio genitive ending ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Archaic Greece ⓘ Classical Greece ⓘ
influenced	later literary perceptions of Aeolic Greek ⓘ
languageBranch	Hellenic languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages
namedAfter	Lesbos ⓘ
partOf	Greek language ⓘ
region	Lesbos ⓘ
spokenIn	Aeolis cultural region ⓘ Lesbos ⓘ surface form: island of Lesbos
status	extinct ⓘ
studiedIn	classical philology ⓘ historical linguistics of Greek ⓘ
subclassOf	Aeolic Greek ⓘ Ancient Greek ⓘ
usedBy	Lesbian lyric poets ⓘ
usedFor	choral lyric poetry ⓘ monodic lyric poetry ⓘ
usedIn	archaic Greek lyric poetry ⓘ
writingSystem	Greek alphabet ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lesbos → regionalDialect → Lesbian Greek dialect ⓘ

Aeolic Greek → hasDialect → Lesbian Greek dialect ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lesbian Greek

Lesbian Greek dialect → hasAlternativeName → Lesbian Greek dialect ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lesbian Aeolic

Lesbian Greek dialect → hasAlternativeName → Lesbian Greek dialect ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lesbian Greek

Ancient Greek dialect continuum → hasPart → Lesbian Greek dialect ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lesbian Aeolic