HELLENIC LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hellenic language mean? 

• HELLENIC LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun HELLENIC LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages

  Familiarity information: HELLENIC LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELLENIC LANGUAGE (noun)

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Meaning:

The Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Greek; Hellenic; Hellenic language

Hypernyms ("Hellenic language" is a kind of...):

Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)

Domain region:

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Hellenic language"):

Modern Greek; New Greek (the Greek language as spoken and written today)

Late Greek (the Greek language in the 3rd to 8th centuries)

Byzantine Greek; Medieval Greek; Middle Greek (the Greek language from about 600 to 1200 AD)

Koine (a Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire)

Ancient Greek (the Greek language prior to the Roman Empire)