Page 1 of 1

Map of classical Greek dialects

Posted: September 18th, 2016, 9:18 am
by Kirk Lowery
Found on Twitter, which I thought would interest this group:

https://twitter.com/historyfacts247/sta ... 7984372737

Re: Map of classical Greek dialects

Posted: September 19th, 2016, 8:25 am
by Jonathan Robie
Cool!

Image

Re: Map of classical Greek dialects

Posted: September 19th, 2016, 10:33 pm
by Stephen Hughes
That dialect map of Greece proper is a small window of a larger Greek-speaking diaspora. Here is a map illustrating a probable estimate of the extent of Greek colonisation in 550 BC. The dialect situation in the colonies is not so straightforward as in Greece where dialect is more or less synonymous with topolect.
Image