Hellenic language

/hɛˌlɛnɪk ˌlæŋgwɪdʒ/

Definitions of Hellenic language

1. noun

   the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
   synonyms: Greek, Hellenic

   types:

   Modern Greek, New Greek

   the Greek language as spoken and written today

   Late Greek

   the Greek language in the 3rd to 8th centuries

   Byzantine Greek, Medieval Greek, Middle Greek

   the Greek language from about 600 to 1200 AD

   Koine

   a Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire

   Ancient Greek

   the Greek language prior to the Roman Empire

   Demotic, Romaic

   the modern Greek vernacular

   Katharevusa

   literary style of Modern Greek containing features borrowed from Koine

   Attic, Classical Greek, Ionic, Ionic dialect

   the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia

   Aeolic, Aeolic dialect, Eolic

   the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis

   Arcadic, Arcadic dialect

   the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken by Arcadians

   Doric, Doric dialect

   the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Doris

   type of:

   Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite

   the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia