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Language details: Attic Greek (Αττική Ελληνική, grc [invented])
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I oppose the request as it is: I can't see the point in making an Attic Greek only wikipedia. Attic greek is not the only literary Classical Greek dialect, as literary Asian Ionic is well defined (through Herodotus mostly), and literary Doric and Eolic exist as well (through Pindar, Sappho, etc) though these dialects may not be well-defined enough for new texts to be written in them. OTOH, pure Attic may be an unreachable goal, as attic was continuously influenced by other dialects, and attic writers occasionally use forms and words of other dialects (most prosators seem to try to avoid perceived hyper-atticisms, whereas tragedies regularly use doric words). As these dialects are mostly mutuably intelligible, and may all be regarded as dialects of a Classical Greek, and I can't imagine creating a separate wikipedia in each possible Classical Greek dialect, I would strongly support a Classical Greek wikipedia instead. Incidentally, since the language code for medieval and ancient greek is grc, the domain for such an attic greek wikipedia would rather be http://grc-ath.wikipedia.org, (and http://grc-cls.wikipedia.org for classical greek). --Rnabet 20:59, 5 July 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
