Was ancient Greek an artificial language that the people did not speak?
GREEKS AND ARBANITES
Giorgos Michas
The writing of the old Greek, which in its first written texts, presents us with a “perfect” language and “rich” in vocabulary.
However, the modern Greek language, although greatly improved by compulsory education, is far behind the “richness” and “excellence” of the language in which the ancient texts and various inscriptions were recorded.
In other words, it is clearly seen here that we are dealing with a course of “decline” and a “barbarization” of the Greek language, which is accepted by all modern linguists, local and foreign. However, this is not only normal, but also contrary to what happens with other European languages, which started the course as a “poor” language, when they started to register, they were “enriched” and “adapted”. .
Therefore, two things could be happening here: either the written language of ancient Greek was an “artificial” language that was not “spoken” by the ancient people, or the people who speak it today have nothing to do with the people. who spoke (if they spoke) the language of the ancient texts!
Since the current language of the Church’s texts is an “unconscious” language for people, we appreciate that the same thing (perhaps with more intensity) happened in ancient times! In other words, even then, there was a difference between the language spoken by the people and the language written by the squid.
The strange thing, however, is that the “unwritten” language of the Arvanites, from antiquity to the present day, preserves in its vocabulary a large number of words from the Ancient Greek Scriptures, which, however (and the strange thing here), do not are preserved by the modern “spoken” Greek language, which is considered a continuation of the ancient Greek script.
We will try to explain what this means in one of our next posts. In confirmation of the above, see the following comparison tables:
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