Armenians) Maragha Armenian (in Maragheh) (still spoken by part of the Iranian Armenians) Hellenic languages Proto-Greek (extinct) Mycenaean Greek (extinct) Ancient Greek (Classical Greek) (Ἑλληνική – Hellēnikḗ / Ἑλληνική γλῶσσα – Hellēnikḗ glōssa) (includes Homeric Greek) (extinct) (Classical language, High culture language of Ancient Greece, Greek colonies and East Mediterranean) Eastern Central (Central Eastern) Aeolic Greek (extinct) Thessalian (in ancient Thessaly) (not the same as Modern Thessalian Greek that descends from Attic Koiné Greek) (extinct) Boeotian (in ancient Boeotia) (extinct) Asia Minor Aeolian (extinct) Arcadocypriot (extinct) Arcadian (in ancient Arcadia) (extinct) Cyprian (extinct) (not the same as Modern Greek Cypriot that descends from Attic Koiné Greek) Pamphylian Greek (in Pamphylia) (extinct) Eastern (Southern Eastern) Ionic (extinct) West Ionic Attic (extinct) Koine Greek (ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος – hē koinḕ diálektos / Kοινὴ – Koinḕ) ("Koinḕ" means "Common" in the sense of "Supradialectal Greek") (extinct) (Classical language, High culture language of the Hellenistic time, Greek colonies, East Mediterranean, the east part of the Roman Empire and the East Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire, see Greek East and Latin West, original language of most of the Bible's New Testament, liturgical language / sacred language of the Greek Orthodox Church and Greek Catholic Church) Biblical Greek (Biblical Forms of Koine Greek) New Testament Greek (Greek of New Testament) Septuagint Greek (Greek of Septuagint (Old Testament)) Jewish Koine Greek (Greek of Byzantine Jews) Patristic Greek (Koine Greek of Orthodox Church fathers) Medieval Greek (Byzantine Greek / Constantinopolitan Greek) (Colloquial or vernacular language of the East Roman or Byzantine Empire) (extinct) Greek (Modern Greek) (ελληνικά – Elliniká) Katharevousa (Καθαρεύουσα – Katharevousa) (Conservative variant of Greek) Demotic (Δημοτική γλώσσα – Dimotikí glṓssa) (basis of Standard Modern Greek but not identical) Modern Athenian / Metropolitan Athenian Greek (close to Standard Modern Greek) (not quite a Southern or Northern Greek dialect, although Standard Modern Greek is based predominantly on the southern dialects, especially those of the Peloponnese) Southern dialects Ionian-Peloponnesian Archaic Demotic Southern Greek Dialects Old Ionian Demotic Greek (all extinct) Old Attican Demotic Greek Old Athenian (archaic dialect) (traditional dialect of Athens) Old Aeginian (in Aegina Island) Old Euboean (in Kymi, Central Northern coast of Euboea Island) Old Megaran Demotic Greek (extinct) Old Demotic Peloponnese Greek (extinct) Maniot (in Mani Peninsula) (archaic dialect) Cargèse Greek (in western Corsica coast, to the north of Ajaccio) (extinct) South Euboean Peloponnese Ionian Islands dialects Cytherian Zakynthian Kefallonian / Cefallonian Ithakan Lefkadan