Re: Franj Travellers' Phrasebook
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 6, 2005, 13:48 |
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On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 03:19:53 -0500, Geoff Horswood
<geoffhorswood@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:57:31 +0100, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
> wrote:
>
> >Geoff Horswood wrote:
> >
> >> Byzantine Greek Bizintiq /bi.z&:~n'tiq/
> >
> >Note: the Byzantine Greeks *never* called themselves anything
> >other than _Rhomaioi_ /rO'mEi/, and the Arabs called them /ru:m/.
>
> Ah. Thanks. That had escaped my notice.
>
> But what did they call their language? Greek, I assume.
Nope. AFAIK, they called their language "Rhomaiika" /rO'mEika/ until
not so long ago (18th/19th century?); "Hellenika" /ellini'ka/ was what
people spoke in the time of Plato.
Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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