Hellenic languages
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| Geographic distribution | Greece and the eastern Mediterranean |
| Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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The term Hellenic languages is sometimes used to refer to a branch of the Indo-European language family thought to include Greek and closely related languages. It is used mainly to describe the relationship between Greek proper and Ancient Macedonian, a barely attested extinct variety whose degree of affinity with mainstream Greek is not well known.
Among the modern descendants of ancient Greek, the moribund Tsakonian dialect is sometimes described as a language separate from Modern Greek proper, as it is frequently believed to be a descendant of the ancient Doric dialect rather than the Attic Koine, and because it is not readily intelligible to speakers of standard Modern Greek.(Voegelin and Voegelin 1977).
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