Attic Greek

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Ancient Greek dialect classical language variety

Attic Greek is the classical dialect of Ancient Greek used in Athens and its region, which became the literary and cultural standard and the main basis for later Koine Greek.

Aliases (6)

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Ancient Greek dialect → classical language variety →
basisFor	Byzantine Greek literary language → Hellenistic Greek → Koine Greek →
contrastsWith	Aeolic Greek → Doric Greek → Ionic Greek →
country	Classical Athens →
dialectGroup	Attic–Ionic →
era	Classical period →
followedBy	Koine Greek →
follows	Archaic Greek →
hasFeature	augment in past tenses → contracted verb forms → dual number in nouns and pronouns → middle voice → optative mood → pitch accent → reduplication in perfect tense → rich case inflection → three-gender system →
influenced	New Testament Greek → later Greek rhetorical tradition →
languageFamily	Hellenic branch → Indo-European languages →
partOf	Classical Greek →
periodOfUse	4th century BCE → 5th century BCE →
spokenIn	Athens → Attica →
standardFor	Athenian public inscriptions → Classical Greek prose →
studiedIn	classical philology →
subclassOf	Greek language → Hellenic languages →
taughtAs	model of classical Greek style →
usedBy	Aeschylus → Aristotle → Demosthenes → Euripides → Menander → Plato → Sophocles → Thucydides → Xenophon →
usedFor	Athenian drama → historical writing → legal speeches → oratory → philosophical works →
usedIn	Classical Athens →
writingSystem	Greek alphabet →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Doric Greek → Northwest Greek →	distinctFrom
Ionic Greek →	closelyRelatedTo
Koine Greek →	developedFrom
Classical Athens →	dialect
Attic Greek ("Attic–Ionic") →	dialectGroup
Proto-Greek ("Attic dialect") →	followedBy
Proto-Greek →	hasDescendant
Ancient Greek →	hasDialect
Greek language →	hasDialects
Albanian language ("Ancient Greek") →	hasLoanwordSource
Hellenic languages →	hasPart
Ionian Greek ("Classical Attic Greek") →	influenced
Medieval Greek ("Ancient Attic Greek") →	influencedBy
Aeolic Greek →	relatedTo
Ionian Greek →	sharesFeaturesWith
Ionic Greek ("Attic-Ionic dialect group") →	sharesIsoglossWith
Ancient Greek →	standardLiteraryDialect