Thanks, but it's not necessarily only a matter of theology, Suda for example is
a 30.000 entries 9th century byzantine encyclopedia, or even far before this
Plutarch, Strabo, Lucian and plenty others wrote in -an earlier version of-
Koine. I am only mentioning this as the body of texts available in Koine -for
any type of subject- far exceeds the body of available texts in Attic -due to
the much greater time span and geographical coverage-, and as a consequence
there is a lot of scholarly research and study of Koine as well. As I have been
the grc incubator moderator since the past year, I have noticed a mix of both
dialects and preferences in the community when creating articles. However when
it comes to examples of modern usage in general, the use of Koine indeed seems
to be primarily centered around religious purposes (e.g. Ecumenical
Patriarchate of Constantinople).
Kind regards,
George T.
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Subject: Re: [Langcom] Lingua Franca Nova
Local Time: February 8, 2017 1:10 AM
UTC Time: February 8, 2017 1:10 AM
From: [email protected]
To: George C. Tsiagalakis <[email protected]>, Wikimedia Foundation Language
Committee <[email protected]>
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 5:33 AM George C. Tsiagalakis <[email protected]> wrote:
an up to date news website in ancient Greek at [http://www.akwn.net/
](http://www.akwn.net/) that has been going for 10+ years, or the Harry potter
translation at
https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Philosophers-Ancient-Edition/dp/158234826X,
examples which showcase that the language can certainly be used for creating
new material.
Both of those use Attic Greek, btw, confirming what I said in the other thread.
*IF* a community arises interested in cultivating a grc Wikipedia, it would be
in Attic.
(And yes, of course there is a large contingent of scholars and students
primarily interested in koine rather than Attic, for religious or merely
theological reasons. I should have acknowledged this in my earlier post.)
A.
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