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13 unusual facts about Modern Greek


Ancient Greek

This dialect slowly replaced most of the older dialects, although Doric dialect has survived to the present in the form of the Tsakonian dialect of Modern Greek, spoken in the region of modern Sparta.

Ancient Greek dialects

Likewise, Modern Greek is divided into several dialects, most of them deriving from the Koiné.

Evagoras I

The spelling as "Evagoras" reflects Modern Greek pronunciation, while the spelling as "Euagoras" is a direct transliteration of the Greek alphabet letters, and reflects Ancient Greek pronunciation.

Frescata

The words mean something unintentional in another Mediterranean language, Modern Greek.

George Zervanos

George (or Giorgos) Zervanos (Greek: Γιώργος Ζερβάνος) (1930 – October 5, 2006) was a Greek operatic tenor.

Hans Warren

He is also known for his poetry, his literary criticism, and his translations of poetry from Modern Greek.

Jim Arvanitis

He attended Greek school to learn the language and became enchanted with the myths and legends of the culture.

John Cananus

The account differs from the contemporary history of John Anagnostes, who described Murad's sack of Thessalonica in 1430, chiefly in Cananus' frequent religious polemic, and in his willingness to write in the vernacular Greek, as opposed to the Atticism of Anagnostes and Critobulus.

Kiarina Kordela

She has also translated a number of academic texts into Modern Greek.

Michael Glycas

A poem of some 15-syllable verses, written in 1158/1159 during his imprisonment on a charge of slandering a neighbor and containing an appeal to the emperor Manuel I, is extant, and is commonly regarded as the first dated work of Modern Greek literature, since it contains several vernacular proverbs.

Panagiotis Vlachodimos

Panagiotis Vlachodimos (Greek: Παναγιώτης Βλαχοδήμος, born 12 October 1991) is a Greek footballer who currently plays for Superleague Greece club Platanias on loan from Olympiacos, as a Winger.

Spear carrier

The term has survived verbatim but evolved in meaning from its metaphorical use, and today carries the general meaning of satellite in Modern Greek.

WNTN

Much of the programming is aimed at the areas many ethnic cultures, including shows broadcast in Haitian Creole, Greek, Indian and Arabic languages.


Patriarch Gabriel III of Constantinople

In 1704 Gabriel formally condemned the edition of the New Testament into Modern Greek translated by Seraphim of Mytilene and edited in London in 1703 by the English Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.