Methodology
I’ve gotten a few questions/complaints about the structure of my posts, so I want to post this as a clarification.
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These grammar lists are anachronistic. Most all examples are from dictionaries or textbooks, so they do not come with a year associated. However, some are from larger works. Judeo-Greek words, for example, are pulled from religious texts, so examples there should denote both time and place but are usually just listed as Judeo-Greek for simplicity.
I compile the different Hellenic languages and dialects (ιδιώματα). I don’t distinguish the two terms. For the most part, I’ll post dialects, but some are more warranted of being called a language. Officially, Greek speakers consider all to be dialects. Some have dialects themselves: e.g. Pontic has three main dialects today - Pontian in Greece, Romeyka in Turkey, and Azovian/Mariupolitan in Ukraine.
A few languages, namely Karamanlidika and Urum, are not Hellenic in the sense of the Hellenic language family, but they are Hellenic in the sense that they are used by Turkophone Greeks.
Lastly, I also include languages spoken in Greece and Cyprus: Aromanian, Arvanite, Romani, etc. The inclusion is not to say that these people or their languages are Greek, but rather it is to say that they are important to the understanding of the Greek landscape.
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I started posting these before starting my academic journey. Thus, I’ve cut a lot of corners when I started, but I remain consistent with them. At the end of the day, my comparison lists are for myself. In an academic setting, it is important to display the time and place of each attestation: e.g. Judeo-Greek, 19th century, Janina. I would love to displace this for each dialect, but each post would become three times as long. There is also further complication within the cases: υἱοῦ (Koine, Attic, etc) and υἱοῖο (Homeric). Finally, within papyrus inscriptions there are a lot of interchange with spelling: οιεἱοῦ is a variation of υἱοῦ. This entire subject is extremely complex, so I condense things down a lot to make them more digestible. Any clarification can be requested in the comments or my dms, and I’ll be sure to respond and provide them. Hope this helps!
