katharevousa

Japanese: katharevousa
katharevousa

… After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Greek was widely used throughout the Middle Ages as the official language of the Byzantine Empire and as the language of the Greek Orthodox Church. Because of the large gap between the language of the purists (called katharevousa) who sought to preserve the literary tradition from the classical period to this period, and the colloquial language of the masses, which was subject to natural changes, Modern Greek, which gained independence from Turkey, was forced to make various choices between the two. At the same time, this modern language influenced other Balkan languages ​​and shows some characteristics in common with them, such as the disappearance of indefinite moods. …

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Japanese:

… ローマ帝国の崩壊のあと,ギリシア語はビザンティン帝国の公用語として,またギリシア正教の言語として中世を通じて広く使用された。古典期からこの時期までの文語の伝統を守ろうとする純正派の人々の言語(カタレブサkatharevousaと呼ばれる)と,自然の変化にゆだねられた口語的な民衆の言語との間に大きなへだたりがあるために,トルコから独立した後の近代ギリシア語Modern Greekは,この二つの派の間のさまざまな選択にせまられてきた。それと同時にこの近代語は,他のバルカン諸言語に影響をあたえ,また不定法の消失などそれらと共通のいくつかの特徴を示している。…

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