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Day: January 5, 2011

The hiatus of διαζύγιο “divorce”

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek
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Eighty year old recordings of popular music should tell you, for a normal language, how that language has changed in the interim. And so it is for Greek, as I’m finding by listening to the collected recordings of Markos Vamvakaris, 1933–1937. The catch is, diglossia has meant Greek is not a normal language; and the […]

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