The artificial "Greek" Koine Language

[teologen]

This video is just pure crap. First; Koine Greek wasn't in use after 1970's. Modern greek dates to the 15th century, but it is influenced by Koine.

And please learn to write english. I 'guest' that you arent't exactly fluent...

[granitus]

@teologen That that you call koine is an artificial language the modern greek koine is just a bastardized koine artificial language with some albanian and turkish words !

[nickpafras]

yes, the ancient Greeks spoke albanian and the Ancient Japanese spoke spanish and the Ancient Romans spoke Russian. And the Americans speak Portuguese....you are an idiot.

[ShpresPerShqipni]

are there any "greeks" out there who know their own history? I think they have their own schools to learn "greek' history & language...they are desperately trying to hold on to the shredded lies they've built around them...why? These people are not natives of Greece. the truth has to come out. do they think the truth will be hidden forever?

[2005defender]

@ShpresPerShqipni ...Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you..."

Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander II, 14, 4 (Loeb, P. A. Brunt) - 95-175 AD

Is there anything else to say ??

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[JamesGREEK26]

First of all i dont speak albanian. Second of all the word Pharaoh is not Greek it is Egyptian and it means "Great House". i do not think the albanian word Fara jon has anything to do with the egyptian one because they have different meanings. The word "koine" is a Greek word. We Greeks use that word it means common, That's why it is known as koine Greek but most people just use the word koine to describe it, look it up on wikipedia! Finally the Greeks spoke Greek not albanian, lol

[granitus]

but pharaons were not houses but humans and you sayd egyptian were greek dont you ???

[JamesGREEK26]

If you don't believe me look it up what Pharaoh means if translated in english. It means "Great house" because at first it was refered to the Egyptian king's palace. And no i didn't say that the Egyptians were Greeks, the Egyptians were Egyptians but the kingdom of Egypt (Ptolemaic kingdom) founded by Ptolemy (a Greek general of Alexander the Great) was Greek, not the people of the kingdom but the king Ptolemy and the generals. The Ptolemy Greeks ruled Egypt till the Roman invasion (of Egypt)

[fp470]

Very interesting. A subtl omission is that nationalism likes to invent itself but humanity and nationalism (political format not identity) differ. Languages are vibrant sponges of human experience and history. English is the best example, but even in French there are soo many foreign (and even German root words) are they really forign. Just becaus your Greek today doesnt make you same as teh Greeks of thousands of years ago the past is past, but it is still in you

[granitus]

This is not greek this is koine and the ancient hellens did only write in this langunage ! !

[fp470]

Ype that my point mate. Hmm maybe I was a touch subtle...I was trying to give you wrap but made an observation.

Good video champ

[JamesGREEK26]

"koine" is a greek word which if translated in english means "common". It was Greek (koine elliniki=common Greek) and it was the Greek language being spoken by the hellenisic four kingdoms of Alexander's empire.Kingdoms of Macedonia, Thrace, Syria and Egypt. All four of them were Greek.

[nickpafras]

The new testament of the Bible was written in Koine Greek. Why would saint Paul write a letter to the poor peasant Christians in Ephesus in Koine greek if they could not speak or understand the language?? please, I would lilke to hear your answer. How was it that the apostles Peter, mark and luke who were all poor fisherman and carpenters write in koine Greek and understand the language with no formal education? please tell me...

[granitus]

Becasue they were clerics

[brainouty]

Is there another version of this video where the text is white? It's almost impossible to read the blue on the black. Thanks!

[granitus]

NO THERE IS NOT ! you have the text in descriptions

[astanai]

hahah!

GREECE=MACEDONIA!

ppl i suggest u get a name of ur own!stop stealing!is like Greece wanting to be name Kreta!only 9% of fyrom is macedonian that doesnt make u all Macedonians!if u feel soooo patriotic come that 9% and join the rest 90% which is in Greece and stop the shouting!

Watch this: /watch?v=uA3kwC2YTq4&feature=c­hannel_page

[granitus]

Are you tryng to say somthing ???

Im Albanian you retard !!!!

Do you think you are beter than fyrom ???

Both fake shit countries

[GreekTubbies]

Anastacia Karakasidou.....

"Having spent some time with villagers of the region, Karakasidou (anthropology, Queens Coll., CUNY) maintains that Macedonia is not exclusively Greek, as nationalists claim, but is instead a multiethnic, multicultural region experiencing the political and religious upheavals engulfing the rest of the Balkans. Karakasidou's obsession with the truth has brought her death threats, apparently from outraged Greeks."