Arcadian-Cypriot Greek

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Distribution area of ​​the Greek dialects, Arcadian in green

The Arcado-Cyprian is an ancient Greek dialect , which in classical antiquity in Arcadia and Cyprus was spoken. It reveals even greater similarities to Mycenaean Greek than other contemporary Greek dialects. Earlier research interpreted this fact in such a way that after the Doric migration in the supposedly geographically isolated areas of Arcadia, Doric, in contrast to most other regions of the Peloponnese, had not been able to prevail and thus the old dialect was preserved. Both the idea of ​​the "Doric migration", the strict equation of dialect and tribe, and their sharp demarcation from one another over several centuries are no longer asserted by recent research. More recent philological studies place e.g. For example, it suggests that most of the Greek dialects did not develop until archaic times and that they therefore do not prove any settlement continuity or migration movements of tribes that would have retained their dialect over several centuries.

Little is known about the Arcadian-Cypriot dialect; in Cyprus this dialect was preserved until at least the Hellenistic period . Literature has not survived in this form of language, the only sources are inscriptions. In Cyprus, Arcadian-Cypriot was used until the 3rd century BC. Chr. With the Cypriot syllabary written.

The dialect of the Pamphylian colonies probably also had certain linguistic similarities .

literature

• Thorsten Roelcke: Variation Typology / Variation Typology : A typological handbook of European languages ​​in the past and present / A Typological Handbook of European Languages. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter 2003. ISBN 3-11-020202-6 , pp. 798-799.
• Ernst Risch: The Greek dialects in the 2nd millennium BC . In: Annemarie Etter, Marcel Looser (ed.): Small writings : On the seventieth birthday of Ernst Risch. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter 1981. ISBN 3-11-086661-7 , p. 270.
• Peter Riemer, Michael Weissenberger, Bernhard Zimmermann: Introduction to the study of Greek studies . Munich, CH Beck Studium 2000. ISBN 3-406-46629-X , p. 48.