Why the greek language became so irrelevant ? It was the language

>>2537016
Suppression of the language and it's people by the Ottomans when Constantinople fell. Unlike Greece, the foreigners who came to Italy were influenced by Latin culture which gave rise to the Romance languages.

>>2537016
communism

>>2537519
But what about those slavic tribes, why they didn't hellenized?

>>2537706
Greece was Ottoman territory. Much harder to move and adopt the local culture there when it's being controlled by another entity.

>>2537706
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints_Cyril_and_Methodius

>>2537016
Da East Side Rowmanz got shut down wen da Automanz tookova dey turf.

>>2537519
Bullshit

>>2537526
Feggoff righty

>>2537016
When Greece ceased to be a major power, Greek also lost its status as lingua franca. It makes sense. The lingua franca is always the main language of the world's (or region's) most dominant empire.

Just look at the lingua franca of today, English. The reason why it's spoken by so many people is because of America's enormous cultural and economic influence over the rest of the world. Likewise, once American hegemony wanes, so will the high status of the English language.

>>2537866
this, seriously, how hard can it be to answer this question. Fall of Constantinople = end of Greek relevance

>>2537016
Greek is literally still used you fuck, etymology some time.

T*rks. They can't do anything of worth themselves but they sure can ruin it for everybody else.

>>2537866
But Rome also fell, yet latin remained the language of the elites, and gave birth to the romance languages.

Because the greek never had a big "empire" besides Alexander's, and the roman empire was extremelly influential and had the right conditions to impose their language, and once dissolved, the vulgar version of that language evolved into what you call "romance languages" today

>>2537706
They were, Slavs settled as far as Athens and they eventually became Roman/Greek ethnically

>>2537016
Oh shit did the catholics all die out?

>>2540064
Hellenistic kingdoms were pretty big. And greek was the official language of the eastern roman empire

>>2541613
What about eastern orthodox, do they still use greek or did they latin?

>>2537947
Because the dominant power became the Church, and its language was Latin

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>>2537016
>THOSE PRONUNCIATIONS.

>>2537526
this so much
I fucking hate cucks