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ATLAS OF ELLINOFONIA

Ellinofonia

The Greek language across time, place and community, with the source beside every claim.

Explore and compare Greek across time, place and community. See why scholars disagree, and follow every claim back to its source.

ASK THE ATLAS

Where and when do we find ?

Opens the page with its places, periods, other names and sources.

How do you say ?

The answer opens with its source, its page and how closely we have checked it.

How do and classify ;

The answer opens with its source, its page and how closely we have checked it.

FIVE PILLARSΠΕΝΤΕ ΠΥΛΩΝΕΣ

The five pillars

  1. IThe Greek LanguageΗ Ελληνική ΓλώσσαThe origins, scripts, structure, history and standardisation of Greek, with Standard Modern Greek as common ground rather than the ancestor of the varieties.Open
  2. IIAncient GreekΑρχαία ΕλληνικάMycenaean, local written varieties, literary traditions and the transition to Koine, with every grouping attributed to the scholar who proposed it.Open
  3. IIIModern Greek VarietiesΝεοελληνικές ΠοικιλίεςRegional and community traditions of Greek, endangered forms, historical communities and the diaspora, each with its own limits and its own sources.Open
  4. IVComparative GreekΣυγκριτική ΕλληνικήSource based comparison across varieties, periods and published classifications, with the evidence visible in every cell.Open
  5. VLexiconsΛεξικάWords from every variety of Greek, with their source, page, place of record and how far we have checked them.Open

Koine, Late Antiquity, Byzantium, the Middle Ages and the early modern period connect the pillars. Greek through time

IVONE COMPARISON, OPENΜΙΑ ΣΥΓΚΡΙΣΗ, ΑΝΟΙΧΤΗ

Three scholars, four varieties, and no consensus we invented

Newton puts Cretan and Cycladic in one group. Trudgill defines different areas there. Horrocks, as cited by VLACH, places Pontic and Cappadocian under a shared heading, which does not merge their evidence. Press a cell to see how we know.

Open the comparison
How scholars classify
VarietyNewton (1972)Regional groupsMediatedTrudgill (2003)Feature areasOriginal examinedHorrocks (2020)Broad headingsMediated
Cretan GreekSCOPE-009
Cycladic GreekSCOPE-011
Pontic GreekSCOPE-015
Cappadocian GreekSCOPE-017
FIVE WAYS INΠΕΝΤΕ ΕΙΣΟΔΟΙ

Five ways in

  1. A questionHow do scholars classify Cretan?
  2. A varietyFrom Epirotic to Australian Greek
  3. A periodFrom Linear B to Katharevousa
  4. A placeAsia Minor, the Black Sea, southern Italy
  5. A sourceForty sources with the exact passage read
WHAT WE KNOW, AND HOW WELLΤΙ ΞΕΡΟΥΜΕ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΣΟ ΚΑΛΑ

The first edition says openly what has not been checked yet

  • 64sources, each with the passage that was read
  • 53research units: varieties, periods and registers, not "53 dialects"
  • 14findings attributed to their source, with their limits
  • 0approved public profiles so far

HOW MUCH OF EACH SOURCE WE READ

  • Passage inspected 47
  • Abstract only 7
  • Metadata only 5
  • Mediated 3
  • Inaccessible 2
THE WORDS OF THE ATLASΟΙ ΛΕΞΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΤΛΑΝΤΑ

Before any comparison, the words we use

  1. variety

    A research object whose limits are set by a source. It is not automatically a taxonomic rank.

  2. attestation

    A document or a recording. Its reading, a feature analysis, a classification and a historical explanation are five different things.

  3. not found

    Not found in this bounded search. Never "not used in this dialect".

All the terms
FOUNDER’S NOTEΣΗΜΕΙΩΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΙΔΡΥΤΗ

One hungered to learn and was never given the opportunity; the other had the knowledge and shared it.

Ellinofonia began long before I built it. It began with two men, both named Nick.

Founder

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