Abstract

During the last three pre-Christian centuries the ‘Koineization’ processes in the Doric territories gave rise to several regional varieties referred to as Doric Koines: North-West Koine (with the focus in Aetolia), Achaean Doric Koine (in Peloponnesian Achaea), South-East Aegean Koine (in Dodecanese with the focus in Rhodes), and Sicilian Koine. Their phonolog…