Re: Italic Greek
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 15, 2004, 8:31 |
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Staving Ray Brown:
>On Tuesday, September 14, 2004, at 01:18 , Peter Bleackley wrote:
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>>This, I suppose, is of most interest to LLL types, but I thought I'd share
>>it with everybody.
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>>Until at least the first century AD, Greek was spoken more frequently than
>>Latin in southern Italy (Magna Graeca) I don't know when its use died out,
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>I wasn't aware that it had. If it has, it has happened in the last 20 to
>30 years.
Interesting - I had no idea that it had survived. Long may it continue!
Pete