Re: Franj Travellers' Phrasebook
| From: | Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 7, 2005, 8:32 |
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On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:48:01 +0100, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
wrote:
>> But what did they call their language? Greek, I assume.
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>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.
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Ok. We can work with this. "Hellenika" would be what the Greeks still
call the Greek language, right?
So that would mean:
Helleneix /E.LE.nejS'/ Hellenic Greek
Rhomaix /ro~.majS'/ Byzantine Greek
Lataing /la.tajJ'/ Latin
Romanu /ro~ma:'nu:/ Romany
BTW, where does the name "Greece/Greek" come from? That it's an exonym
seems obvious, but from whom?
G
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