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What is a koine?

What is a koine? Here are some definitions.

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  1. A lingua franca.
  2. A regional language that becomes standard over time.
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Some forms of Greek before the Koine Greek period are reconstructed as having aspirated stops.
As a consequence of Alexander's conquests, koine Greek had become the shared language around the eastern Mediterranean and into Asia Minor.
Modern-day Greek is a lot different from ancient Greek, or koine.
Church services are conducted in koine, a later form of ancient Greek in which the New Testament is written.
In many poleis, the common hearth of the polis, the koine hestia, which was also an altar-hearth for Hestia, was located in the prytaneion.

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