Greek has been spoken in the balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium bc or possibly earlier.
Attic greek language.
Syntax of the greek language especially of the attic dialect for the use of schools by johan nicolai madvig 1873 syntax of the moods and tenses of the greek verb by william goodwin 1879 a brief greek syntax and hints on greek accidence by frederic farrar 1870.
Moreover accentuation varies in greek words and in early greek was musical.
Attic dialect ancient greek dialect that was the language of ancient athens its closest relative was the ionic dialect of euboea with the ascendance of the athenian empire in the course of the 5th century bc attic became the most prestigious of the greek dialects and as a result was adopted later as the standard language by the macedonian kings.
The earliest written evidence is a linear b clay tablet found in messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 bc making greek the world s oldest recorded living language among the indo european languages its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now extinct anatolian.
A difficulty with greek that may put off learners is the maintenance of an older form of the alphabet than that used for latin english and many other languages.
Moreover it became in hellenistic times the.