• Koine Greek (UK: /ˈkɔɪni/ KOY-nee; US: /ˈkɔɪneɪ/ KOY-nay, /kɔɪˈneɪ/ koy-NAY; Koine Greek: ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, romanized: hē koinè diálektos, lit. 'the common...
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  • Look up Koine or Koiné in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The literal meaning of the Greek word κοινή (koinḗ) is "common". It may refer to: Koine Greek...
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    In linguistics, a koine or koiné language or dialect (pronounced /ˈkɔɪneɪ/; from Ancient Greek κοινή 'common') is a standard or common dialect that has...
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  • Jewish Koine Greek, or Jewish Hellenistic Greek, is the variety of Koine Greek or "common Attic" found in a number of Alexandrian dialect texts of Hellenistic...
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    From the Hellenistic period (c. 300 BC), Ancient Greek was followed by Koine Greek, which is regarded as a separate historical stage, though its earliest...
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    of Rome and Koine Greek became the first or second language in the Roman Empire. The origin of Christianity can also be traced through Koine Greek because...
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    Achaean Doric koine appeared, exhibiting many peculiarities common to all Doric dialects, which delayed the spread of the Attic-based Koine Greek to the...
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  • Suret language (redirect from Iraqi Koine)
    needed] Iraqi Koine is a merged dialect which formed in the mid-20th century, being influenced by both Urmian and Hakkari dialects. Iraqi Koine, like the...
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  • changed to [ɪ:] Literary Yoruba, also known as Standard Yoruba, Yoruba koiné, and common Yoruba, is a separate member of the dialect cluster. It is the...
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  • delimiters. The Greek language underwent pronunciation changes during the Koine Greek period, from about 300 BC to 400 AD. At the beginning of the period...
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  • varieties of Modern Greek that followed a common evolutionary path from Koine and have retained a high degree of mutual intelligibility to the present...
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  • Common sense (redirect from Koine ennoia)
    discussions include Latin sensus communis, Ancient Greek κοινὴ αἴσθησις (koinḕ aísthēsis), and French bon sens. However, these are not straightforward...
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  • 1 Esdras (redirect from Koine Ezra)
    1 Esdras (Greek: Ἔσδρας Αʹ), also Esdras A, Greek Esdras, Greek Ezra, or 3 Esdras, is the ancient Greek Septuagint version of the biblical Book of Ezra...
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  • (Greek sialon or sielon saliva, modern Greek σάλιο salio) Achaean Doric Koine. The common dialect, used in the decrees of the Achaean League. In Arcadia...
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  • Ancient Macedonian language (category Articles containing Koinē Greek-language text)
    Koine Greek. While the bulk of surviving public and private inscriptions found in ancient Macedonia were written in Attic Greek (and later in Koine Greek)...
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  • recognize three languages as original biblical languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh (Hebrew: תנ"ך‎), consists...
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  • Southern Italian koiné was a koiné language that had evolved due to contact between Naples, Amalfi, Salerno and other ports. It was spread by the Normans...
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    Bible (category Articles containing Koinē Greek-language text)
    The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are...
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  • Koine Greek grammar is a subclass of Ancient Greek grammar peculiar to the Koine Greek dialect. It includes many forms of Hellenistic era Greek, and authors...
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    during the centuries that followed a vernacular form of Greek, known as koine, and Greek culture was spread, while the Greeks adopted Eastern deities...
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    five books of the Hebrew Bible were translated from Biblical Hebrew into Koine Greek by Jews living in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, probably in the early or...
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  • Language of the New Testament (category Koine Greek)
    The New Testament was written in a form of Koine Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the conquests of Alexander the...
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  • Hebrew Bible from Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic to Koine Greek, specifically, Jewish Koine Greek. Mentionable are also the philosophic and ethical...
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  • July 2023. "Koine". CollinsDictionary.com. HarperCollins. Retrieved 24 September 2014. "Koine". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. "Koine". Merriam-Webster...
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    Haymanot Humanistic Culture Languages Hebrew Biblical Yiddish Yeshivish Jewish Koine Greek Yevanic Judeo-Tat Shassi Judaeo-Iranian Judaeo-Spanish Judeo-Gascon...
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  • common example is the influence of Aramaic on some texts written in Jewish Koine Greek. Jonathan T. Pennington Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew...
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    directly led to the emergence of the largely Attic-based "koine", or "common" Greek dialect. Koine spread throughout the Hellenistic world, becoming the lingua...
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  • English, Bonin Standard English. Before World War II, Ogasawara Japanese Koiné was a koineized form of Japanese spoken among Japanese islanders who spoke...
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    were often mutually unintelligible, these officials communicated using a koiné language based on various northern varieties. When Jesuit missionaries learned...
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    Christianity (category Articles containing Koinē Greek-language text)
    South Asia. Early Jewish Christians referred to themselves as 'The Way' (Koinē Greek: τῆς ὁδοῦ, romanized: tês hodoû), probably coming from Isaiah 40:3...
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