| 31. | Prior to the Koine period, Greek of the classical and earlier periods included several regional dialects.
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| 32. | This alphabet eventually became the standard Greek alphabet, its use becoming uniform during the Koine era.
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| 33. | Others believe it to be the descendant of the local Doric-influenced variant of the Koine.
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| 34. | No, I have no particular interest in what appears first, the ancient or koine form.
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| 35. | Scholars generally recognize three languages as original biblical languages : Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek.
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| 36. | Inscriptions and papyri are our main source of insight into non-Judeo-Christian Koine Greek.
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| 37. | Information can also be derived from some Attic against the " wrong " Koine by citing examples.
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| 38. | Herodas did not write his mimiambics in the contemporary Greek " koine " of his period.
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| 39. | In the diphthongs, the offglide became a consonant in Koine Greek, and they became Modern Greek.
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| 40. | The long diphthongs lost their offglide and merged with the long vowels by the time of Koine Greek.
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