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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Ancient Greek language
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic (c. 9th–6th centuries BC), Classical (c. 5th–4th centuries BC), and Hellenistic (c. 3rd century BC–6th century AD) periods of ancient Greece and the ancient world. It is predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek. Its Hellenistic phase is known as Koine ("common") or Biblical Greek, and its late period mutates imperceptibly into Medieval Greek. Koine is regarded as a separate historical stage of its own, although in its earlier form it closely resembles Classical Greek. Prior to the Koine period, Greek of the classic and earlier periods included several regional dialects.
The Ancient Greek language is one of the most prominent in human cultural history, as it was the language of the works of Homer, of the historians, playwrights and philosophers during the Athenian Golden Age, and of the New Testament. It has made a large contribution to the vocabulary of English, including such essential terms as democracy and was a standard subject of study in Western educational institutions from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. The New Latin used in the scientific<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=148363 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Greek, Ancient Language Speakers</h2>
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38.322828, 22.259163, Greece
53.000000, 9.000000, Europe</googlemap>
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        <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_grc_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_grc_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_grc_ortho-3 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_grc_ortho-3 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_grc_ortho-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_grc_ortho-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/greece Greece]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/europe Europe]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-2 Code: </b></td><td>grc</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>grc</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Indo-European Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Greek Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Attic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Greek, Ancient Language]]</b>
 
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