Doric Greek

Doric Greek
Doric Greek
Δωρισμός
Region	Peloponnese, Crete, Rhodes, Sicily, Italy
Era	c. 800–100 BC; changed into the Tsakonian language
Language family	Indo-European Hellenic Ancient Greek Western Doric Greek; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	grc-dor
Glottolog	dori1248

Doric or Dorian (Ancient Greek: Δωρισμός, romanized: Dōrismós) was a Hellenic language. It was a dialect of Ancient Greek. It was spoken in Western Greece and some parts of Southern Italy and Sicily.

References

↑ Buck, Carl Darling (1900). "The Source of the So-Called Achaean-Doric κοινη". American Journal of Philology. 21 (2): 193–196. doi:10.2307/287905. JSTOR 287905.