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Sep 1, 2017 · Today, in mainstream linguistics, language evolution no longer denotes the course of linguistic features morphing into alternatives with greater selective advantages, but the nebulous set of phylogenetic events that made us loquens.
- Bernard H. Bichakjian
- 2017
All major languages and many others have dictionaries. This chapter traces the development of dictionaries for over 2,000 years, starting with China, India, Persia, classical Greece, and Rome. Arabic and Hebrew dictionaries in the Middle Ages were of comparable cultural importance.
The “Septuagint” became the source text for later translations into Latin, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian and other languages. Related biblical texts in Hebrew were also translated into Greek in Alexandria during the two following centuries.
The language continued in widespread administrative use through the post-classical period, although Greek superseded Latin in the Eastern Roman Empire. In some cases, languages are completely unattested and only inferred by modern historical linguists.
Historical Latin came from the prehistoric language of the Latium region, specifically around the River Tiber, where Roman civilization first developed. How and when Latin came to be spoken has long been debated.
May 7, 2024 · When we talk about Ancient Greek we refer to the language that was used in Greece approximately from the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD. It encompassed a long range of various dialects, including Attic, Ionic, Doric, and Aeolic, which later developed into the Koine Greek.
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Latin, once merely a regional Italic dialect in and around the city of Rome, had become the spoken and written language for most of what is today western Europe. Boasting a major literature of its own, it was also the medium by which the great achievements of Greece would be transmitted to the west.
