Why the greek language became so irrelevant ? It was the language of the richest part of the roman empire, and now it's only spoken by a few millions. It's true latin also died out, but it gave birth to other languages (Spanish, french, italian) it isn't the same for greek, where slavic language have completly replaced it. What happened ?
Why the greek language became so irrelevant ? It was the language of the richest part of the roman empire...
Wyatt Ward
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Levi Russell
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Anthony Reyes
Suppression of the language and it's people by the Ottomans when Constantinople fell. Unlike Greece, the foreigners who came to Italy were influenced by Latin culture which gave rise to the Romance languages.
Carter Mitchell
communism
Wyatt Hall
But what about those slavic tribes, why they didn't hellenized?
Charles Martin
Greece was Ottoman territory. Much harder to move and adopt the local culture there when it's being controlled by another entity.
Carter Collins
Jordan Baker
Da East Side Rowmanz got shut down wen da Automanz tookova dey turf.
Isaiah Thomas
Bullshit
Andrew Ortiz
Feggoff righty
Nathaniel Baker
When Greece ceased to be a major power, Greek also lost its status as lingua franca. It makes sense. The lingua franca is always the main language of the world's (or region's) most dominant empire.
Just look at the lingua franca of today, English. The reason why it's spoken by so many people is because of America's enormous cultural and economic influence over the rest of the world. Likewise, once American hegemony wanes, so will the high status of the English language.
Adrian Ross
this, seriously, how hard can it be to answer this question. Fall of Constantinople = end of Greek relevance
Ethan Brown
Greek is literally still used you fuck, etymology some time.
Gabriel Taylor
T*rks. They can't do anything of worth themselves but they sure can ruin it for everybody else.
Lincoln Walker
But Rome also fell, yet latin remained the language of the elites, and gave birth to the romance languages.
Colton Garcia
Because the greek never had a big "empire" besides Alexander's, and the roman empire was extremelly influential and had the right conditions to impose their language, and once dissolved, the vulgar version of that language evolved into what you call "romance languages" today
Nathaniel Richardson
They were, Slavs settled as far as Athens and they eventually became Roman/Greek ethnically
Caleb Edwards
Oh shit did the catholics all die out?
Gabriel Davis
Hellenistic kingdoms were pretty big. And greek was the official language of the eastern roman empire
Matthew Campbell
What about eastern orthodox, do they still use greek or did they latin?
Ethan Taylor
Because the dominant power became the Church, and its language was Latin
Robert Carter
>THOSE PRONUNCIATIONS.
Jeremiah Smith
this so much
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