Modern Greek
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 121 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5091-1079-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Modern Greek (Greek: ??? ???????? or ??????????? ??????, "Neo-Hellenic", historically and colloquially also known as ????????, "Romaic" or "Roman") refers to the varieties and dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present centuries earlier - from the fourth to the fifteenth century AD. During most of the period, the language existed in a situation of diglossia, with regional spoken dialects existing side by side with learned, archaic written forms. Most notably, during much of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was known in the competing varieties of popular Demotic and learned Katharevousa. Today, standard modern Greek, based on Demotic, is the official language of both Greece...