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Re: Franj Travellers' Phrasebook

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Sunday, February 6, 2005, 13:48
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@...> Watch the Reply-To!