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Hellenic languages

E7600

branch of Indo-European languages language family

Hellenic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Ancient Greek, Koine Greek, and Modern Greek and their historical dialects.

Aliases (1)

Greek language ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of Indo-European languages → language family →
ancestor	Proto-Hellenic →
glottologCode	hell1247 →
hasCharacteristic	complex verbal aspect system → pitch accent in ancient stages → rich inflectional morphology → stress accent in modern stages → three-gender grammatical system →
hasHistoricalStage	Ancient Greek → Koine Greek → Medieval Greek → Modern Greek → Mycenaean Greek →
hasPart	Aeolic Greek → Ancient Greek → Attic Greek → Cappadocian Greek → Classical Greek dialects → Cretan Greek → Cypriot Greek → Doric Greek → Ionic Greek → Koine Greek → Modern Greek → Mycenaean Greek → Northwest Greek → Pontic Greek → Tsakonian → Yevanic →
hasProtoLanguage	Proto-Greek →
influenced	Byzantine Greek → Latin vocabulary → Scientific terminology in many languages →
isoFamilyCode	ine →
languageFamily	Indo-European languages →
primaryRegion	Cyprus → Greece →
region	Balkans → Black Sea region → Eastern Mediterranean →
subclassOf	Indo-European languages →
usedBy	Greek diaspora → Greeks →
usedIn	Ancient Greek literature → Eastern Orthodox liturgy → New Testament Greek →
writingSystem	Greek alphabet →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Cretan Greek → Cypriot Greek → Demotic Greek → Koine Greek → Modern Greek → Mycenaean Greek →	languageBranch
Katharevousa → Pontic Greek → Tsakonian →	languageFamily
Northwest Greek →	subclassOf
Medieval Greek ("Greek language") →	subdivisionOf
Cappadocian Greek →	subfamily