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The Influence of Katharevousa on the Phonology of Modern Greek

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Margaret Kofod
Margaret Kofod*
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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Much has been written on Greek diglossia and the language struggle (between katharevousa and dhimotiki). Defenders of katharevousa have emphasized the importance of the language’s roots in ancient Greek, opponents of katharevousa have emphasized the idea that the Greek language should be first and foremost ‘the language of the people’.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 16 , 1992 , pp. 84 - 109
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1992

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11. However, these proclitics form one unit with the following word, e.g. [to’nandra], [tomba’tera], , so that is not really a final n in these cases.

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15. Secondary school in Greece consists of 3 years of yimnásio followed by 3 years of lίkio.

16. However, a very high percentage of Greek children attends lίkio.

17. Many of the words elicited in the questionnaire are included in the list of words containing learned and demotic consonant clusters in the (Athens 1976) 214-17.

18. My own impression, based on casual observation of speech outside Thessaloniki, is that the constraints do still function in many dialects of modern Greek, especially in the speech of generations older than those interviewed for this project, i.e. the ‘old people’ referred to by the informants.