Abstract

The terms South or East Greek, the precursor of Attic-Ionic and Arcado-Cypriot, refer to one of the two major dialectal varieties reconstructed for the Greek of the second millennium BCE on the basis of studies by Porzig and Risch in the mid-twentieth century. The other major dialectal variety is referred to as North or West Greek, the precursor of the Doric dialects. These terms are based on the geographical locations …