It's actually incredible how the Greek Language survived

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It's more incredible how survived this

it's hilarious how the lisping dialect took off

>>9570710
How is it incredible? Every language available has survived up till nowadays.

>>9570710
How? Plenty of languages survive and Greek has evolved just like English and Latin.
What's more amazing is Hebrew going from a sparsely spoken religious language to the official language of a state after thousands of years

>>9570747
>Every language available has survived up till nowadays.
Not for the same amount of time and it didn't change that much if compared to other languages
>>9570761
>What's more amazing is Hebrew going from a sparsely spoken religious language to the official language of a state after thousands of years
Hebrew had to be artificially recreated meanwhile Greek never ceased to exist

>>9570710
Is reading Homer in the modern pronunciation any less of a mistake for it, though?

>>9570747
Pseud/retard detected.

>>9570771
Depends on what Greek you are talking about because a lot of dialects went extinct, just like every language.

>>9570761
This is true, I think OP means its relatively the same as 3000 years ago (it isn't). There are however African languages that pre-date the existence of European people, which is kind of amazing

>>9570836
>I think OP means its relatively the same as 3000 years ago (it isn't).
m8, you can literally read the New Testament in Koine Greek without a problem knowing only Modern Greek

>>9570771
>same amount of time and it didn't change that much
Sanskrit has a bigger right to that claim that Greek.

>>9570910
Sanskrit is basically ded my friend

>>9570851
Koine Greek isn't 3000 years ago. It's more like 2000.

I, however, cannot read Homer in Homeric Greek unless I actually know Homeric Greek.

>>9570710
Modern Greek is to ancient Greek what Italian is to classical Latin. And modern Greek as spoken today is partly artificially recreated.

>>9570926
Apparently native speakers don't have a problem after some puzzling out