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Day: November 5, 2015

What language is spoken in Athens, Greece?

By: | Post date: 2015-11-05 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Linguistics, Mediaeval Greek

To add to the other answers, and to answer a slightly different question 🙂 : between the 1300s and the 1800s, the region *around* Athens was substantially Albanian-speaking (Arvanitika). That’s why the map Brian Collins included in his answer has a patch of white. (A friend of mine once called that patch of white the […]

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