Modern Greek vs Ancient Greek 

For 2 years I have studied modern Greek and, nowadays, I am studying ancient Greek. For me there are more similarities than differences.

This is amazing! Texts from most germanic languages are very hard to understand just 400 years ago. Go back 1000 years and you basically have to be an expert to understand it correctly... Here we're talking a language that's basically understandable 2000 years later!

I like very much greek language,both ancient and modern...I like it because is the language of ancient Greece,Hellenistic kingdoms and eastern roman empire.language of the new testament spoken also in ancient Rome. Greetings from Italy

The person who made this has very in-depth knowledge of Greek, while his pronunciation does seem foreign. Props to you, must have taken a long time to learn both Modern and Ancient forms so well.

Why is it that Old English is a completely different language from modern English but the much older Greek stayed the same language over the millenia?

This video is maybe the only out there which is legit, and I realized that from the first few seconds when you said "the ancient greek and modern greek are the same language". Was a pleasure to watch it! Ευχαριστώ!

Wow man, i'm greek and i'm a school teacher and i'm learning new things from you! Thank you!

Some hard word such as νάυς are still used in complex words such as ναυτικός, ναυλώνω, ναυσταθμος etc. However, πλοίο and other substitute words can be found in ancient Greek (πλοίο comes from πλέω- εν πλώ meaning floating). Other words, that were used as adjectives for the main word are now used as nouns as well. For example, ύδωρ is water in ancient Greek and when someone wanted to have fresh water that would be νεαρόν ύδωρ. But everyone wanted fresh water so they started calling it νεαρόν meaning fresh (water). So today we call it νερό.

Finally, a voice of sanity. Poor Erasmus seems to have a lot to answer for. Would you consider doing a more extensive video on specific differences, when such differences occur? Or maybe there already exists a Koine-Modern comparison?

Great video! I have found something like this so long. Thank you, bro.

Thanks! Greek, right off the bat. Very interesting and useful. It's great that you are posting again.

''The man'' in Ancient Greek (declension) ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ἄνθρωπε, τὸν ἄνθρωπον, τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ. ''The man'' in Modern Greek : ο άνθρωπος, , άνθρωπε, τον άνθρωπο, του ανθρώπου. So, many things disappeared, but what remained is just incredible. I know no other language that kept so much ancient stuff and diclensions, conjugations, etc. I'd say ancient Greek is the basement of modern Greek but many words and prepositions disappeared.

This video is exquisite. Please make more like this.

Thank very much, you help us so much in our journey to learning geek. Excellent video. Please make more.

This video is great, exactly what I was looking for! Thank you! The other two possible videos you mentioned in your video about the origin of modern Greek lexicography and about the historical development of Greek and Latin are also really interesting topics! I'd love to see some videos about them!

Greek has the most documented linguistic evolution in the world. There is not ancient and modern Greek language. The language is one and evolved.

Εξαιρετικό βίντεο για τα αρχαία και νέα ελληνικά! Ερχόμενος από Κύπρο, μπορώ να ισχυριστώ ότι η δικιά μας διάλεκτος είναι κάπως πιο κοντά στην αρχαία ελληνική απ'ότι η δημοτική. Για παράδειγμα, στην Κυπριακή διάλεκτο, θα πούμε: "πάμε εις την Θάλασσαν" αντί για "πάμε στη Θάλασσα" Exceptional video on the differences between ancient and modern Greek. Coming from Cyprus, I can "brag" that our local dialect is somewhat closer to ancient Greek than the modern Greek demotic. For example, in the Cypriot dialect, we would readily say: "πάμε εις την Θάλασσαν" instead of "πάμε στη Θάλασσα".

Love your videos.

My Ancient Greek professor INSISTS they are different languages. But most Modern Greeks that are 18+ years old can look at ancient greek and understand the general idea of the sentence. I think Ancient Greek to Modern Greek is like Middle English to Modern English speakers. May I remind you that English speakers CANNOT do this with Old English, not only that but the meat and potatoes of Ancient Greek (the endings and articles) are nearly identical in Modern Greek. Greek has stood the test of time and Ancient Greek was used in literature as recently as the 1800's, then the failed Kathrevousa lasted until the 1970's. Hell, my professor is not even aware of the Iotakismos. I feel that one ought to learn Modern Greek before Ancient Greek, and that they increase your understanding of the language on a level that cannot be described. εκπαιδεύση literally means "out of childhood" and is the word for education. αποστασή means distance but literally means "from the stop". Χταποδί is literally "eight feet" and is Octopus. You grow to love this language and understand it on a level that cannot be described with words except for passion. You view every word as not an abstract idea using letters, but a combination of words that make understanding simple and easy (more often than not comical).

As a native Greek reading ancient Greek of New Testament is very easy because its actually the same.And its a 18 centuries book.Going more back in time thinks change a bit but if you read carefully you can understand that's there is not to much difference.

Great video as always. It's so nice to see you on YT after such a long time. You could have also mentioned the following: 1) Pronunciation of αι, γ and γκ 2) No distinction in pronouncing short and long vowels - ο=ω 3) Spiritus asper is no longer pronounced 4) Change from pitch accent to dynamic accent 5) Adoption monotonic orthography instead of polytonic orthography (1981) 6) Dual forms finally ceased to exist (both in nominal and verbal inflection) 7) Disappearance of temporal augment, and in some cases syllabic augment… I'm looking forward to your new videos about ancient languages.

I loved this video & want to see more.

Wonderful video😁 one thing to say: we may not use some words but we use their derivatives. For example for ship we say Ploio instead of Naus but for sailer we say Nautis. Also for king we say Basileas instead of Anax but the home of the king is called Anaktoro. Or Brux for deep sea we simply say deep sea, so two words. But for submarine we say hypobruxio. So „lost“ words are used today, just not directly but through synthetic words.

Brilliant!

Actually the one with the "n " at 4:00 we changed it and we now use the n again, but only for the male words

Thank you! We may still use "το γράφειν" ...I was using such archaistic expressions in my school essays...You are a great teacher!

As Greek is my second language I had no problem with the Greek words and their pronunciation, but had a hell of a time understanding the English part of the video. You should make a video explaining what all those terms mean, eg declension, accusative etc, a sort "learn how to learn a language" video. I think I would have a difficult time learning Greek from scratch.

Thank you for making this video! I thought that ancient Greek and modern Greek were very different, but it turns out it comes down to some very slight changes that together sort of create a waterfall effect, making the two languages seem distinct, but Greek is a very conservative language and I'd go as far as to say modern Greek is a dialect of ancient Greek, just a different enough one to not be mutually intelligible by untrained speakers. I guess it's similar to how modern Icelandic could be considered a dialect of Old Norse. Modern Icelandic speakers can more or less read Old Norse texts, and just by looking at direct translations, you can see the two are basically the same language, with some slight differences in pronunciation and word choice.

It is good to see you posting again! Thanks for the video! What have you been learning recently?

What does it mean that two of the most dramatic grammatical changes between ancient and modern Greek -- the replacement of complementary infinitives with subjunctives and the disappearance of the separate future tense -- are parallel to Arabic and, AFAIK, other Semitic languages? In Arabic, the complementary infinitive is rendered by the subjunctive (very close to the indicative) preceded by the particle "an." (Cf. the Greek "na.") The Arabic future is the present preceded by the particle "sa." (Cf. the Greek "tha.") Is this just a coincidence or was there an influence?

Very appreciative of this video and the information it contains. One thing I didn’t notice that you mentioned, however. I’m not sure how you categorize it, though. It’s the loss of the breathing mark in writing and the resulting pronunciation change. Example: helios to ilios.

Could anyone recommend me the best books you know to learn ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Akkadian language? I really need it. Congratulations for your channel, deka glossai, the most useful I found about ancient languages!

You will find the diphthongs AY and EY written as AFY and EFY in some archaic epigraphy (pre-5th C BC), using the bau or digamma.There are also words in inscriptions like FOINOΣ for the Latin Vinus. Attic was just one dialect among many.

such a good video!! Καλή δουλειά!!!

Bravo, bravo! Πολύ πολύ καλό βίντεο!

It actually changed a lot less over this long period of time than for example germanic languages like English or German from the middle ages until now

Thanks!

I am Greek and most of what you say I am convinced is correct. Your pronunciation isn't perfect, but pretty good because I could understand it easily. Good video!

Would like to hear something about Pontic Greek, spoken in Northeastern Turkey, in this ancient-modern context. The grammar, vocabulary are different enough from standard Greek that the languages are mostly mutually untintelligible.

Would be very interested in that Greek lexicon vid!

Many elements of 'Ancient Greek' are retained in the numerous modern Greek dialects some of which are quite archaic in part.

But I absolutely see what you mean, the highly educated literary people in Greece like newspaper editors and others will find clever ways to sneak in archaic forms and still be writing and speaking understandably.

Basically the only phonological differences between Roman-period Koiné Greek and modern Greek pronunciation are that οι and υ were /ü/, and η was a separate phoneme /e/ within many dialects of the Roman period. Aspiration dropped out of the language during Koiné times and was not pronounced by most. “[E]ven in some dialects in early times, like Ionic, this /h/ did not exist and was not pronounced.“ And “[i]n the Athenian spelling reform of 403 BCE, the ancient sign for this aspiration Η was dropped out of the general writing system.” For details see www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/koine-greek-pronunciation/. Go here to listen to samples of reconstructed Koiné pronunciation: www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/greek-mp3-samples/.

Thank you for this informative and well-made video. I would like to ask, however, which is the source that provides us with the correct pronunciation of ancient greek?

You are missing the drop of the dual number, the δυϊκός, as in singular, dual and plural.

I've been studying Koine, but I've always wanted to know Modern as well. Would it be more of a help or a hindrance to try to learn both simultaneously?

I want to learn modern Greek... Does anyone know any good audio lessons? Thanks :)

Great video! I would also recommend "The Development of the Greek Language" by Wendy Moleas. If you decide to buy/read it, I'd love to know what you thoughts on it are. Post more videos! I missed them! And what happened to the old ones of you speaking in Modern Greek, for example? And about Vox Latina? :) I was looking for your videos before to help a student of mine!

yay deka glossai is back!

Hello I was wondering if anybody could help me with a translation, I am wanting to get a tattoo of the Socrates quote “i know that i know nothing”, but I dont want it to be in Modern Greek cause that would be inaccurate, so if anyone could help me with the correct grammar and spelling of said quote in Attic, spoken by Plato if im not mistaken, would be much appreciated !!

Since when did Jan misali start using a different font

Oh hey! Plz I'm really interested in the ancient Greek ,, and i genuinely wanna learn it , so shall i learn modern first ? *Thanx in advance :3*

at the pronunciation the αυ,ευ the valled (af,ef) or (av,ev)

Θερμά συγχαρητήρια! Χάρις σε εσάς καταλαβαίνουμε όλοι μας καλύτερα τα ελληνικά! Μου άρεσε πιο πολύ απ΄όλα που στην αρχή του βίντεο τονίσατε πως τα αρχαία με τα νέα ελληνικά είναι η ίδια γλώσσα, η οποία στο πέρασμα του χρόνου έχει υποστεί όλες αυτές τις μεταβολές και τις αλλαγές. Δυστυχώς, πολλοί άνθρωποι πιστεύουν πως πρόκειται για διαφορετικές γλώσσες.

Great vid. I do have a question though since I've noticed that your pronunciation of modern Greek is off, specifically when you said εντάξει it sound closer to en-taw-xi. In modern Greek is much stronger short vowel sound. It can vary on the person of course with how along the vowels can get but it never changes its ah sound to get to an awe sound. So how certain can we ever be to how the ancient language was spoken?

If the changes in pronunciation and other places happened in the koine period which also ancient history then why is it considered modern?

In general your video is very explicative and make things more simple than the most videos about i have allready viewed, but there is also, a lot to say, about some particularities, remaining not cleared enought, as in suite with some particular exemple ....for exemple, Ενώ, also ενόσω, in fact, means meanwhile, in that time, (in FR pendant ce temps, cependant..)..en o, also is an abreviation of, ''en afto'', as, the form of en' (aft)o = Εν' (αυτ)ώ....and so on for many things about a real comrehension of the differents forms of pronounciation....the ancient greek languise is allmost the same in meanings and in termes of algebric and geometrical formes as Pythagoras have explored the roots and the magic holly spells of each letter and phrase...as for the formula ''abracadabra''... which means ''as from them, so to thoses'' or as from those so in this or in them,.... ab ra ca da bra...the magic of the magical spell in ancient greece come from gods themselfs, because that was the god's language, for use to sing the magical majesty of nature, on life,...magical nature, magic sounds....magic to discover by your own....

What you've described here is the Demotic, or the Katharevousa?

Amice, dicendum est te optimum esse. Omnia dixisti. Pauci homines ''occidentales'' sciunt hoc quid narras. Vale.

Brilliant

I learned Koine Greek. All I can say is it was rough. There are some similarities and differences in how to pronounce some of the letters together.

Is the word "koine" pronounced as it seems or as "kine"?

what was the letter for the pronunciation of [v] in ancient greek?

thank you for this great video! I'm italian and I've been studying ancient greek for 5 years when I was at school. I've always been courious about one thing: is it possible, for a modern greek, to read and to understand at least a great part of a classic greek text? at least a simple one?

1:21 you mispronounced the voiced dental fricative. you added that it's not to be confused with the unvoiced but you said the unvoiced. Δ is like the th in the word the.

i've heard the word thalasa in the pontic greek "Romeika" the ancient Greek dialect sorry for mistakes I'm just interested in this language ... beautiful language

so did you make a vid about the vocab?

1:29 Actually μπ and ντ, are not exactly b and d. If they're in the middle of a word (of greek origin), μπ sounds like mb and ντ sounds like nd.

Modern Greek is just the evolution of ancient Greek. That's why the have differences. They are not different languages ( Greek are spoken from at least 4000 years. It's logical to have some changes throughout the years).

And what about pitch and homophones?

If you live in Holland and are a bit smart, you go to the ‘Gymnasium’ where you learn Ancient Greek and Latin so I was wondering if I could understand modern Greek? I’m 13 now, 2 years of lessons around 600 - 1000 words and almost All important grammar

Thanks. The pronunciation of Ancient Greek makes more sense to me than modern.

Very nice. But why do you say the present passive participle is the only remaining declined participle? How about the past passive participle and others? For example, σωζόμενος, σωσμένος, ...

Θέλω ειπείν is an expression we have kept saying in modern Greek though.

χάριν σοι ἔχω / εὐχαριστῶ :)

Which Greek dialect is considered the source of Modern Greek?

I have to come back to this video every 3 or 4 months because I always forget how modern greek is pronounced

Can anybody here answer and substantiate his answer to the question whether the Ancient Greek word 'poiemasin' 1) means 'works' (which can be either workmanship or spiritual workings, deeds, doings), or 2) means 'things made' (solely workmanship in material sense), or 3) primarily means 'works' but can also mean 'things made' (because 'things made' is a possible synonym for 'works'), or 4) primarily means 'things made' but can also mean 'works' (because 'works' is a possible synonym for 'things made'), or 5) does not have a primary meaning but can mean either 'works' or 'things made'.

You guys gotta understand something important. When this lovely guy from deka glossai (thank you for the honory greek name of the channel) says that the changes in pronunciation started around 300-200BC... what he means έμμεσα is that we speak nowadays Alexanders dialect. More or less anyways. Not Miltiades'. Or Leonidas'. We speak the makedonian dialect of greek that dominated when makedonian kingdoms ruled Hellenism. Never forget. Especialy after the national/ethnical treason of Prespa agreement.

it seems like modern greek is a faster spoken version of ancient greek.. for example in ancient times autos was pronounced as a/ou/tos now it is spoken faster as just autos....

what does Nemesis mean?

from a Greek Epirus Macedonian --- on the mainlands every tribe had it's own dialect... small islands had their own where as bigger islands had 2 or more... so stick to what you know - your own language!!!

Please please respond. I believe that with the letters η θ υ χ have changed the pronunciation. But I need to be sure. Can you say how? Sorry for my bad english and thanks for the video. Is very helpful.

Thought I would look into learning Koine Greek, how hard can it be? ...I can't even understand the English words your using to describe the koine words...so I'm just gonna watch some epicfail videos and feel better about myself

I wouldn't say they're not different languages just because they share many similarities because of their relationship. spoken Ancient Greek would be mostly unintelligible to a modern greek speaker right? and also just because theres a fair degree of mutual intelligibility between languages doesnt mean theyre the same. as a German speaker I can read through a dutch text and get a lot of it for example or even read through older germanic languages like old high German but they are still clearly different. Spanish also isnt Italian because Italian and Spanish people can communicate fairly easily gothic isnt German just cause they share a lot too besides their defining differences although defining what languages and what dialects can be tricky sometimes we do separate ancient and modern greek for a reason, though they may in a form represent two points on the same path of evolution as themselves they are very different still I think you may just be little biased towards that issue because of your passion for both languages (?) very nice concise video, keep doing what youre doing :3

As a Greek, I surely congratulate you on your knowledge of the language. However, allow me to say that the tenses Perfect and Pluperfect are not formed with έχω, είχα+participle. Instead of Participle the third person of the Simple Future Tense is used: E.g. Έχω γράψει (I have written) Simple Future: Θα γράψω, θα γράψεις(-ης), θα γράψει (-η). Γράψει isn't Participle. Έχω γράψει, έχεις γράψει, έχει γράψει, έχουμε γράψει, έχετε γράψει, έχουν γράψει! The same with είχα γράψει.

Geoffrey Horrock’s book is invaluable

After 2600 years 70% words remain the same between Greek Homeric and Greek modern. Divergence major are sintactic and grammatic. Homeric poems were written this way , in Ionian-Athenian dialect. ....................................................................................................................................... Start Odysseia - Τext Greek Omeric , 6th cent bc. 1 .ΑΝΔΡΑ ΜΟΙ ΕΝΝΕΠΕ ΜΟΥΣΑ ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΝ, ΟΣ ΜΑΛΛΑ ΠΟΛΛΑ ΠΛΑΓΧΘΗ, ΕΠΕΙ ΤΡΟΙΗΣ ΙΕΡΟΝ ΠΤΟΛΙΕΘΡΟΝ ΕΠΕΡΣΕ ΠΟΛΛΩΝ Δ΄ΑΝΘΡΩΠΩΝ ΙΔΕΝ ΑΣΤΕΑ ΚΑΙ ΝΟΩΝ ΕΓΝΩ. ....................................................................................................................................... Odysseia - Traslasion in modern Greek by Constantinos Doukas 2007. 1.ΑΝΔΡΑΝ ΕΙΠΕ ΜΟΥ ΜΟΥΣΑ ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΝ ΠΟΥ ΠΑΡΑ ΠΟΛΥ ΠΛΑΝΗΘΗ,ΤΗΣ ΤΡΟΙΑΣ ΙΕΡΗΝ ΠΟΛΙΝ ΠΟΡΘΗΣΕ,ΠΟΛΛΩΝ Δ'ΑΝΘΡΩΠΩΝ ΕΙΔΕ ΑΣΤΕΑ ΚΑΙ ΝΟΥΝ ΕΓΝΩΡΙΣΕ. ....................................................................................................................................... Start Iliade - Text Greek Omeric 6th cent bc. 2.ΜΗΝΙΝ ΑΕΙΔΕ , ΘΕΑ, ΠΗΛΗΙΑΔΕΩ ΑΧΙΛΗΟΣ ΟΥΛΟΜΕΝΗΝ , Η ΜΥΡΙ΄ ΑΧΑΙΟΙΣ ΑΛΓΕ ΕΘΗΚΕ,ΠΟΛΛΑΣ Δ΄ΙΦΘΙΜΟΥΣ ΨΥΧΑΣ ΑΙΔΙ ΠΡΟΙΑΨΕΝ , ΗΡΩΩΝ. ....................................................................................................................................... Iliade - Traslasion in modern Greek by Constantinos Doukas 2007. 2 .ΜΗΝΙΝ ΑΔΕ ,ΘΕΑ,ΤΟΥ ΠΗΛΕΙΑΔΟΥ ΑΧΙΛΛΕΩΣ,ΟΛΕΘΡΙΑΝ,ΠΟΥ ΜΥΡΙΑ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΑΧΑΙΟΥΣ ΑΛΓΗ ΕΘΕΣΕ,ΠΟΛΛΕΣ ΓΕΝΝΑΙΕΣ ΨΥΧΕΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΔΗ ΕΣΤΕΙΛΕ , ΗΡΩΩΝ. ....................................................................................................................................... Homeric words in Italian language.1 .andro-(ide), epico, musa, tropo-(sfera) , poli-(edro) , iero-(monaco) , antropo-(centrico) , (para)-noia. 2 .mania* , dea , myriade , algia , teca , psyche , Ade , eroe. * L'ILIADE Begin with the word μῆνιν -(menin) , accusative of μῆνις .Homer, wrote in Ionic dialect . Μῆνις in Doric dialect --> μᾶνις (manis , mania).

Χαίρετε και υγιαίνετε από Ελλάδα!

You didn't include about περισπωμένη,δασεία,ψιλή,οξεία,βαριά,

What about the biggest -mi verb of them all, “eimi”? It’s not only a -mi verb but also a rare consonant stem -mi verb 😅

The ancient Greek vowels we're great. Bring them back. They don't have many in modern Greek anymore.

great video, your information is all correct, for once, btw Koine - Κοινή is pronounced Kini

Il, Ill, El, Ell, Al, All, Ol, Oll, Ul, Ull means the same thing; Hyll or Ill = Star 🌟 Diell in Albanian means Sun ☀️ And Dielli = Del Elli = The Star Rises Up 🌟 The Sun is a Star 🌟 The Stars and Sun Worshipers; Illyrians, Pelasgians, Albania, Graeculus, Apollo, Dielli, Julius Ceasar: all have one thing in common; Ill, Il, El, Al, Ul, Oll, Dielli = Del Elli = The Sun Rises Up. All read Star 🌟 In Latin, Star is called Stella and Stella comes from Albanian Ell 🌟 = Star 🌟 Latin reads La Atin = Left The Father Italy reads Viteliú = Vijnë Nga Illi = They Come From The Star 🌟 Luna in Latin means Moon and Luna reads in Albanian; Luan Ana = The Side Moves (Moon Phases) Hëna reads Ha Ana = The Side Eats It Up (Moon Phases) Rome reads Rrumbullak, which means Round in Albanian Diana = Zana = Fairy 🧚‍♀️ Zana comes from Zëri = Voice Vesta reads Vjeshta = Autumn And Vjeshta comes from Albanian verb vjel = gather, pick, pluck (grapes or other fruits) Venus = Vend = Place Neptune = Ne Prej Ullit = We Come From The Star 🌟 Caelestis = Ky El Është = This Is Star 🌟 Aurora reads Ajo U Urua = She Was Blessed Veni, Vidi, Vici reads Vij e Ndiej, Vij e Di, Vij e Kryej = I come and feel, I come and know, I come and end it. Modern Italians cannot read ancient Latin, as they speak Catholic biblic church language, their DNA is very mixed as well, North African, Middle Eastern, Germanic, Celtic, and many more, but also Albanian / Illyrian, Arbëreshë of Italy are the only ones in Italy, who can claim to be descendents of Romans and transcript ancient Roman texts and writings. Romans were Albanians, one of the Illyrian tribe that moved to Italy, thousands of years ago. The only people with Illyrian DNA are Albanians. Many Romans conquered Central and Northern Europe, so they became English, German, French, etc. Some Romans came back with the people they conquered, that's why Italy is a melting pot of DNA. The Moors conquered Southern Italy, Spain and Portugal, many were assimilated, now these brown skinned immigrants think they are ancient Romans 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Vikings travelled to Southern Europe and were assimilated. Viking reads Vend i Ngrirë = Frozen Place Scandinavia reads S'kan Di Na Vi = S'kanë Ditur Nga Vijnë = They Did Not Know Where They Come From. Scandinavians moved out of Illyria and migrated to what is known Scandinavia. Many Albanian words in the so-called Norse languages. Middle Eastern religions manipualted everything, they tell people, they're protestant, catholic, orthodox, hebrew or muslim and not what is their DNA or what is their language. When biblic church languages were created, people forgot their origins. Modern Italians are not related to ancient Romans, unless they're Albanians or have Albanian / Arbëreshë / Arvanite origin. Modern Anatolian Greeks are not related to Ancient Dorians, half of Greeks are Anatolian migrants from 1923 Population Exchange and the other half are Albanians / Arvanites who forgot their language and now speak fake biblic church language. Arbëreshë of Italy, live in Italy for thousands of years and speak Albanian 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 Arvanites of Graeculus = Gratë e Yllit = Women Of The Star live in Greece / Graeculus / Gratë e Yllit for thousands of years and speak Albanian 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 The Hunza tribe live in Asia for thousands of years and still use Albanian words 🇦🇱 Hunza comes from Albanian Hunda = Nose And Nose comes from Albanian verb Nuhas = Smell Hunter reads Hunda Ancient world spoke Albanian and Albanian language 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 is the mother of all languages.

This is great, but I'm surprised there was no explicit mention of the shift in pronunciation of theta and phi from aspirated stops in AG to their modern values as in "thin" and "fin". At school studying AG we were taught to "cheat" and use the modern values for these letters because differentiating between unaspirated and aspirated stops is so difficult for English speakers ! I have read subsequently, somewhat to my surprise, that these were among the later phonological changes to the language, and that the AG values for theta and phi were still used in the Koine (although, again, it's easier for most modern speakers of Koine to "cheat" and use the modern values). Anyway great stuff, thank you !

This is a very interesting insight. Of course I think from a practical standpoint the two are considered different languages because the level of inflection is much higher in the old. And when you have loads of inflection, you create a lot of new opportunities for variation with word order, etc. Not to say that there aren't many ways to say the same thing in the modern dialect, but that there are common syntax, and if you came at a native Greek speaker with some heavily inflected stuff they'd either throw their beer in your face or call you a hypernationalist freak for Katharevousa.

Congrats pal, very good job !! Well, Herasmus has done a lot of harm to our language. e.g. even you, who seem to use modern and ancient greek so correctly, are constrainted to pronounce the Κοινή as "koeeneh",even if other greek words have been used in english with their diphthongs pronounced the attic way, totally opposite to that of Herasmus: phenomenon (φαινόμενον-not fah-eh-nomenon) atmosphere [or just sphere, ατμόσφαιρα, σφαίρα κ.ά.] are pronounced the attic way (not sfaeera, atmosfaeera, etc. as Herasmus claimed, diarrhea (not dararroeeah) and so on...

Woah woah they are the same? I am just hearing about this now?

Please correct your expression: between these two languages(!)... Ancient and Modern Greek is just ONE and only language. "Modern" Greek is simply the evolution of our marvellous language after all these thousands of years. Of course now is more simple in grammar or in syntax but the majority of even Homeric Hellenic words is found today especially in derivative forms. For example instead of the word "Ύδωρ" (water - Genitive "Ύδατος") today we say mainly "Νερό" but it is maintained in the derivative "Ενυδάτωση" (hydration). The public Company that administers the home water supply is called "Εταιρεία Υδάτων" not "Εταιρεία ...Νερού". Another example: the word "Θύρα" (door) today we call it mainly "Πόρτα" but it is found in derivative "Παράθυρο" (window) forming with the preposition "Παρά" plus the noun "θύρα" (all together meaning something that is near the door). So we don't say "Παραπόρτα" etc etc Of course an average greek if you say "θύρα" and not "πόρτα" fully understand the same object because for example in football stadiums the external doors are called "Θύρα" let's say Θύρα 11 (Gate 11) and so on for hundred of thousands greek words. Our rich language is one and there is continuity through time taking of course into consideration all the historical events and adventures of Hellenism.

😢 i needed the comparison of music😥