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Conlangery #88: Ancient Greek (natlang)

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Is There a Pitch Accent System in Ancient Greek?

The Athenians one day decided that they were going to start using a different alphabet. The Wikipedia on ancient Greek phenology actually says that ancient Greek had a pitch accent system. So any wording Greek that starts the vowel will have a breathing mark, one which means there's an H sound and one which doesn't.

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