Medieval Greek

"Byzantine Greek" redirects here. For the people, see Byzantine Greeks.

Medieval Greek (also known as Middle Greek or Byzantine Greek) is the stage of the Greek language. It was spoken from 330 to 1453, mostly in the Byzantine Empire.

Medieval Greek
Byzantine Greek Ἑλληνική Ellinikí
Region	eastern Mediterranean (Byzantine Empire)
Era	330/395 AD – c.1500 AD; developed into Modern Greek
Language family	Indo-European Hellenic Greek Attic-Ionic Koine Greek Medieval Greek
Writing system	Greek alphabet
Official status
Official language in	Byzantine Empire
Language codes
ISO 639-2	grc
ISO 639-3	grc (i.e. with Ancient Greek)
Linguist List	qgk

Medieval Greek Media

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  Evolution of Greek dialects from the late Byzantine Empire through to the early 20th century. Demotic in yellow, Pontic in orange, Cappadocian in green. (Green dots indicate Cappadocian Greek speaking villages in 1910.)

Further reading

• Andriotis, Νicholas P. (1995). History of the Greek Language. Thessalonica, Greece: Institute of Neo-Hellenic Studies.
• Browning, Robert (1983). Medieval and Modern Greek. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-29978-0.
• Horrocks, Geoffrey (2010). Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-3415-6.
• Tonnet, Henri (2003). Histoire du grec moderne: la formation d'une langue. L'Asiathèque Langues du monde. ISBN 2-911053-90-7.
• Holton, David; Horrocks, Geoffrey; Janssen, Marjolijne; Lendari, Tina; Manolessou, Io; Toufexis, Notis (2020). The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316632840. ISBN 9781139026888. S2CID 222381614.

Other websites

• Use of Greek in the Byzantine Empire
• Grammar of Medieval Greek Project (1100–1700), University of Cambridge
• Early Modern Greek blog (mainly in Greek)