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Conlangery #88: Ancient Greek (natlang)

Conlangery Podcast

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Is Ancient Greek Really a Good Language?

Ancient Greek is one of the longest nearly continuously documented languages in the world, about 3,400 years. It's an interesting laboratory of language contact if you go in for that sort of thing. I use a reconstructed pronunciation because my big hang up in ancient Greek is Greek verse. The short vowels of your mid vowels are tense and the long ones are lax.

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