koine

English - Turkish

Definition of koine in English Turkish dictionary

şive

ortak dil

Turkish - Turkish

Definition of koine in Turkish Turkish dictionary

Büyük iskender'in fetihlerinden sonraki zamanlarda Yunan kültürünün etkin olduğu memleketlerde konuşulan ortak Yunan diline verilen isim

Helenistik ve Roma dönemlerinde bütün Yunan dünyasının ortak dili olan lehçe

English - English

Definition of koine in English English dictionary

The "common" Greek language that developed and flourished between 300 BCE and 300 CE (the time of the Roman Empire), and from which Modern Greek descended. It was based on the Attic and Ionian dialects of Ancient Greek

A lingua franca

A regional language that becomes standard over time

The "common" Greek language that developed and flourished between 300 BC and AD 300 (the time of the Roman Empire), and from which Modern Greek descended. It was based on the Attic and Ionian dialects of Ancient Greek

a Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire

"The common Greek language as distinct from Classical Greek " 1 The Septuagint and the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) were written in Koine Greek

Newly formed compromise language that usually arises from a leveling of features distinguishing dialects of a common base language, or of features distinguishing several closely related languages. The new language is hence deregionalized and does not reflect social or political dominance of any one group of speakers. The classical example of a koine (as well as the source of the term) is Hellenistic Greek, which developed from Attic Greek through replacement of the most distinctively Attic features by features of Ionic or other dialects. A koine may serve as a lingua franca and often forms the basis of a new standard language

{i} dialect or local variant of a language that becomes the typical common languageof a larger area; lingua franca

The "common" or popular form of Greek spoken by Alexander's soldiers and transmitted as an international language throughout the Greco-Roman world The Septuagint and New Testament are written in koine

a regional dialect or language that becomes the standard language over a wider area, losing its most extreme local features in the process; also, a lingua franca: a common hybrid or other language used by speakers of different languages See also: lingua franca

a common language used by speakers of different languages; "Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times"

Hyphenation

Koi·ne

Etymology

() From Ancient Greek κοινός (koine, “shared, common, public, general, ordinary, usual”)