Kojne: Ancient Greek Language Overview

Kojne is a common form of the Greek language that originated in the postclassical ancient era.
Kojne was the first supra-regional dialect of Greece and subsequently
became the lingua franca for the population of the eastern Mediterranean and the
ancient Near East, including the Roman period. Kojne is the main ancestor of the
modern Greek language.
300 BC – 600 AD (official use of Byzantium until 1453); turned into
medieval Greek, preserved as the liturgical language of the Greek Orthodox
and Greek Catholic Churches.
The literary Kojne was used in most literary and scientific works in Greek in
the post-classical period.
Among other things, Kojne is also the language of the Septuagint (a collection of
translations of the Old Testament into ancient Greek), the Christian New
Testament and the earliest Christian theological works of the Church fathers. In
this context, Kojne is also referred to as the "Greek language of the New
Testament", "biblical" or "patristic Greek".
A study of all sources dating back to the six centuries of Kojne development
shows a gradual deviation from the ancient Greek language in the field of
phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary and other elements of the spoken
language. Most of the new forms were initially rare, gradually becoming more
frequent, and eventually stabilized in the language. Due to linguistic changes,
Kojne has acquired significant similarities with medieval and modern Greek, and
almost all the features of the modern Greek language can be traced in the surviving
Kojne texts. Since most of the changes between modern and ancient Greek
occurred during the development of Kojne, it is largely understandable to native
speakers of modern Greek.