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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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  • Ελληνιστική Κοινή, "Hellenistic Koiné", in the sense of "Hellenistic supraregional language"). Ancient scholars used the term koine in several different senses...
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  • and Roman antiquity Koiné language, a supra-regional form of any language Standard Modern Greek, sometimes called "modern Koiné" The Yoruba language...
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  • Jewish Koine Greek, or Jewish Hellenistic Greek, is the variety of Koine Greek or "common Attic" found in numerous Alexandrian dialect texts of Hellenistic...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Dano-Norwegian (Danish and Norwegian: dansk-norsk) was a koiné/mixed language that evolved among the urban elite in Norwegian cities during the later...
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    attributive and predicative meaning. The Great Andamanese koiné has a seven-vowel system. Koiné vocabulary:[clarification needed] Column in yellow denotes...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    were often mutually unintelligible, these officials communicated using a koiné language based on various northern varieties. When Jesuit missionaries learned...
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    Parisian Quebec Galician German Standard Bernese Greek Standard Modern Ancient Koine Greenlandic Gujarati Hawaiian Hebrew Modern Biblical Tiberian Samaritan...
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  • Press. Colvin, Stephen C. 2007. A historical Greek reader: Mycenaean to the koiné. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Horrocks, Geoffrey. 2010. Greek: A history...
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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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  • NKo (ߒߞߏ) is a standardized unified koiné form of several Manding languages written in the NKo alphabet. It is used in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ivory...
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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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    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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  • 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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    The royal courts of the Ming and early Qing dynasties operated using a koiné language known as Guanhua, based on the Nanjing dialect of Mandarin. Standard...
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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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    often this lexifier is not modern French but rather a 17th- or 18th-century koiné of French from Paris, the French Atlantic harbors, and the nascent French...
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    James the Great (Koinē Greek: Ἰάκωβος, romanized: Iákōbos; Aramaic: ܝܥܩܘܒ, romanized: Yaʿqōḇ; died AD 44) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. According...
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    Hilal Algerian koiné Judeo-Algerian Algerian Saharan Eastern Algerian Eastern Hilal Tunisian koiné Maqil Fessi Hassaniya Nemadi Moroccan koiné Eastern Western...
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  • Common sense (redirect from Koine ennoia)
    sensibles" (or "common perceptibles"). In this discussion, "common" (κοινή, koiné) is a term opposed to specific or particular (idia). The Greek for these...
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  • and the use of Koiné Greek and Latin as liturgical languages replacing Biblical Hebrew. The word synagogue comes from Jewish Koine Greek, a language...
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  • continuum. Ticinese koiné refers instead to a koiné form used by speakers of local dialects (particularly those diverging from the koiné itself, as, e.g....
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    Lhasa dialect is used as a lingua franca in Ü-Tsang and the Tibetan Exile koiné language is also based largely on it. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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