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At 03:26 2.5.2003 -0700, Adam wrote:
--- BP Jonsson <bpj@hidden.email> wrote: > The official language remains standard Byzantine > Greek -- what they would call > _Rhomaika Katholikon_, i.e. there is a diglossia > even more extreme than that of > modern Greek *here*. What resources have you found on Byzantine Greek? I've come up with zip!
I guess there are paper sources around, but I haven't delved into them. A lot is in French, I'm afraid. Basically Byz. Greek is the middle term between Koiné and modern Demotic, but writers mostly aspired to write in Koiné or even Attic, apart from the more or less occasional slip, and of course lexemes borrowed from Latin and other languages. The pronunciation of course was essentially modern already in late Antiquity, apart from the phoneme /y/ from old /y(:)/, /yi/, /oi/ which even is preserved in some modern dialects, or has undergone the "anomalous" change to /u/ rather than /i/. You find some cases of the latter also in Italiotic.
Admittedly Italiotic is not a > conlang, but a "con-revived > natlang", and I haven't worked a whole lot on it > beyond trying to digest what > Rohlfs published on Italiotic *here*. > > / B.Philip Jonsson B^) > OOO! OOO! OOO! Gimme gimme gimme!!!!
Will, indirectly, as time allows. I plan to make my digest-translation of the Rohlfs material I ame up with available (probably as TXT rather than HTML...) but don't expect it to be very fast.
Where'd you find THAT treasure?
At my university library. "Sitzungsberichte der Bayrischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Jahrgang 1949, Heft 4; 'Historische Grammatik der unteritalienischen Gräzität' Von Gerhard Rohlfs.
How much did it cost?
To me? Zilch. To the library? Not a lot in those days either, I would believe.
What language is it published in?
German.
Adam who needs a few hundred good Italiot or Byzantine borrowings in C-a
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^) -- mailto:melrochX@hidden.email (delete X!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them. -Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)