Eastern Greek dialects

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branch of Ancient Greek dialects

Eastern Greek dialects are a branch of Ancient Greek varieties spoken mainly in the Aegean and Asia Minor regions, including notable forms such as Ionic and Attic.

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Label	Occurrences
Eastern Greek dialects canonical	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of Ancient Greek dialects ⓘ
attestedIn	inscriptions ⓘ literary texts ⓘ papyri ⓘ
characteristicFeature	certain morphological innovations in verb endings ⓘ innovative vowel system compared to Western Greek dialects ⓘ loss of digamma in many positions ⓘ use of long ē (eta) where other dialects have ā (alpha) ⓘ
contrastedWith	Aeolic Greek ⓘ Doric Greek ⓘ Northwest Greek ⓘ Western Greek dialects ⓘ
geographicalDistribution	Aegean islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Attica ⓘ Chios NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyclades NERFINISHED ⓘ Euboea ⓘ Ionia ⓘ Lesbos ⓘ Samos NERFINISHED ⓘ coastal Asia Minor ⓘ
hasNotableDialect	Classical Attic ⓘ Epic Ionic ⓘ Ancient Greek ⓘ surface form: Homeric Greek Old Attic ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Archaic period ⓘ surface form: Archaic Greek period Classical Greek period ⓘ
includes	Attic Greek ⓘ Ionic Greek ⓘ
influenced	Koine Greek ⓘ surface form: Hellenistic Greek Koine Greek ⓘ Medieval Greek ⓘ Modern Greek ⓘ surface form: Standard Modern Greek
languageBranch	Greek ⓘ
languageFamily	Hellenic ⓘ
roleIn	development of supra-regional Greek koinai ⓘ formation of Attic-Ionic literary standard ⓘ
spokenIn	Aegean Sea region ⓘ surface form: Aegean region Asia Minor ⓘ
standardizedBy	Athenian cultural dominance in Classical period ⓘ
status	extinct as spoken vernaculars ⓘ
subclassOf	Hellenic languages ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greek dialects
timeDepth	at least first millennium BCE ⓘ
usedIn	Athenian literature ⓘ Classical Greek drama ⓘ Classical Greek philosophy ⓘ Homeric epics ⓘ surface form: Homeric epic tradition Ionian historiography ⓘ
writingSystem	Greek alphabet ⓘ

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Ionian Greek → partOf → Eastern Greek dialects ⓘ