Medieval Greek

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Byzantine Greek historical language stage variety of the Greek language

Medieval Greek is the historical stage of the Greek language used from roughly the 6th to the 15th century, bridging Ancient/Koine Greek and Modern Greek and serving as the linguistic medium of the Byzantine Empire.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Byzantine Greek	3

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Byzantine Greek ⓘ historical language stage ⓘ variety of the Greek language ⓘ
alternativeName	Byzantine Greek ⓘ Middle Greek ⓘ
developedInto	Modern Greek ⓘ
follows	Ancient Greek ⓘ Koine Greek ⓘ
hasDialect	learned written variety of Byzantine Greek ⓘ vernacular spoken varieties of Byzantine Greek ⓘ
hasFeature	increased use of periphrastic verb forms ⓘ merger of several vowel phonemes (iotacism) ⓘ monophthongization of many ancient diphthongs ⓘ reduction of the case system in spoken language ⓘ stress accent rather than pitch accent ⓘ transition from synthetic to more analytic structures ⓘ
hasNotableText	Byzantine court poetry ⓘ Chronicle of Morea ⓘ Digenis Akritas ⓘ
influenced	Modern Greek morphology ⓘ Modern Greek ⓘ surface form: Modern Greek phonology Modern Greek vocabulary ⓘ
influencedBy	Attic Greek ⓘ surface form: Ancient Attic Greek Arabic ⓘ Church Slavonic ⓘ Koine Greek ⓘ Latin ⓘ Turkic languages ⓘ
linguisticContinuumBetween	Koine Greek ⓘ Modern Greek ⓘ
partOfLanguageFamily	Hellenic languages ⓘ Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages
precedes	Modern Greek ⓘ
standardizedIn	Istanbul ⓘ surface form: Constantinople
subdivisionOf	Hellenic languages ⓘ surface form: Greek language
timePeriodEnd	15th century ⓘ
timePeriodStart	6th century ⓘ
usedAs	administrative language ⓘ literary language ⓘ liturgical language ⓘ
usedFor	Byzantine historiography ⓘ Byzantine legal texts ⓘ Byzantine poetry ⓘ Byzantine theological writing ⓘ hagiographic literature ⓘ
usedIn	Byzantine Empire ⓘ Byzantine Empire ⓘ surface form: Eastern Roman Empire
writingSystem	Greek alphabet ⓘ

Referenced by (14)

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

Cappadocian Greek → developedFrom → Medieval Greek ⓘ

Cretan Greek → developedFrom → Medieval Greek ⓘ

Demotic Greek → developedFrom → Medieval Greek ⓘ

this entity surface form: Byzantine Greek

Emperor Constantine VI → ethnicGroup → Medieval Greek ⓘ

subject surface form: Constantine VI

this entity surface form: Byzantine Greek

Modern Greek → follows → Medieval Greek ⓘ

Proto-Greek → hasDescendant → Medieval Greek ⓘ

Greek language → hasHistoricalStage → Medieval Greek ⓘ

Greeks → historicalLanguage → Medieval Greek ⓘ

Cypriot Greek → historicalOrigin → Medieval Greek ⓘ

Hellenic languages → influenced → Medieval Greek ⓘ

this entity surface form: Byzantine Greek

Koine Greek → influenced → Medieval Greek ⓘ

Alexios I Komnenos → languageSpoken → Medieval Greek ⓘ

Koine Greek → precedes → Medieval Greek ⓘ