Ancient Greek/Modern Greek differences and similarities

There is another topic about todays' greek language that I found in this forum too. Check it out! Fascinating stuff. (Read Sotiris' posts too! :-))

http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t5743.htm

Yes, the topic quoted was very interesting. I would like to have more input regarding the ideas and facts mentioned there. Someone who knows more about languages has anything to add about this?

I just noticed that this topic about GREEK LANGUAGE is moderated and closed,due to hate-spam comments by sockpuppets like Sotiris.

I don't know what do you mean by that. I didn't read any hate messages there. I'm guessing that Scanderbeg (Albanian National Hero for those who don't know) is an Albanian who is protecting his Greek neighbors from pressumably hate spam from other slavs who live in Balkans.

I didn't see anything like that in that topic. I think it's all in your mind. Slavs are too busy with their problems right now to care about Greeks or anything regarding them, including their language, no matter how funny that is. Stop being paranoid! You are hurting everyone with that. Let's talk about languages. We have no problem if you discuss about Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian languages. Please do so.

classical scholars will tell you classical greek and modern greek have 85% similarity.

modern greek has more english loan words today than any other language.

tufeki is turkish but oplo is the word used in modern greek
kodospina is never used in modern greek.. the word used in modern greek is noikokira.

if you want to learn more about modern greek please visit this website.

http://www.translatum.gr/


the ignorance shown on this forum is amazing.

Terry

What do typical Greeks in Greece look like?

http://greekmilitary.net/Greek%20Troops/Picture%20052R.jpg
http://greekmilitary.net/Army%20Parade%202005/1Hellenic_soldier_Greece_02.jpg

Yes I love Greece and Greeks, I think they are remarkable people.

Please back up your statements before making authorative statements about Greece and Greeks, I will be watching you.

All the smart alek guys were saying "greek is funny language" but they
failed to quote just one funny greek word. LOL. :-)

@Predrag

Slavs have time for everything, brate ;-)

Don't delete this please! Ne vise!

In order to understand the differences between todays' greek and ancient greek, you should at least be specialised in turkish and/or persian and see the influence that those two languages have had on the greek language during the centuries, especially during more that 500 years of turkish otomans' ruling of Greece, during which, most of the otoman soldiers either married greek women or just had children with them. That's why greeks today look nothing like greeks of ancient times, in sculptures, mosaics, etc, etc, but look identical to their turkish neighbors. This is another topic, so it deserves another place.

Anyway, greeks and turks share the same identical faces, culture, music, songs, cuisine, probably genes too, but speak two different languages, no matter how interdependent those languages can be at this time.

Modern Greek = Ancient greek + Persian + Arab + Turkish + Albanian + Bulgarian + Macedonian + Serbian + maybe some Afrikaan.

So, you must know deeply all those languages to understand how complex and hard greek language has become during all these years.

There is more about this in one of the most succesful topics in this forum, where greeks posters took their precious time and explanied to all of us in detail their language's long transformation. God bless them!


http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t5743.htm


This forum is great.

Albanians and Bosniaks,the only people who share the same religion with Ottomans Turks.Intermarriages between different religions were forbidden.You don't have a clue of ottoman history.Have you heard about devshirme?

<All the smart alek guys were saying "greek is funny language" but they
failed to quote just one funny greek word. LOL. :-)>

I agree with Leonidas

To the smart alecks.Ion is Romanian,not Greek!

http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t5657-0.htm

Where is Bogdan or Vassilis or Sotiris?........

I always overlook the "Trol posters" and read what Brennus is saying

@TerryB

You forgot chinese,spanish,hindi and esperanto LOL

Every guy,who doesn't give proofs,he just ridicules herslf.

Let me give you an example,how should we behave in a linguistic forum

Gustav Meyer,German linguist estimates that, of the 5140 title-words in his etymological albanian dictionary, 1420 are of Romanic(Latin,Romanian,Vlach) origin, 540 Slavic,(Serbian,Bulgarian) 1180 Turkish(Ottoman,arab,persian), 840 modern Greek
400 indoeuropean,730 of unknown origin,probably Illyrians.

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC01770462&id=d-chx06HcQMC&q=Gustav+Mayer+5140&dq=Gustav+Mayer+5140&pgis=1

Greek language is the most beautiful languages in the worlsds...greeks are the smartest people in the world...opaaaaa....oppaaaaa....we are clean too...oppaaaaa....opaaaaa...I am greeeeekkk....ooppaaaaaa...oooopaaaaaaa...oooopppaaaaaaa...greeeeekk!

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