Byzantine Greek language

Byzantine Greek language, an archaic style of Greek that served as the language of administration and of most writing during the period of the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman, Empire until the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453.

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During the Byzantine period the spoken language continued to develop without the archaizing tendencies of the written language. Byzantine Greek is still the liturgical language of the Greek Orthodox church.

More from Stratos Theodosiou, astrophysicist and president of the Greek Physicists Association, who has written more than 30 books on the Greek language, with a large number of them focused on this period, who talks to Stergos Kastelloriou, in our series "We Speak Greek in March".