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- proper noun Collectively, the
continuum of forms of theGreek language as written and spoken during the time of the Byzantine Empire (CE 330–1453), preceded by Koine Greek and succeeded byModern Greek . (ISO 639-3 code: gkm.)
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Examples
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We stepped blithely into the twilight, and during the long descent I discoursed with him, in fluent Byzantine Greek, of the affairs of his village.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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Greek descent -- later Byzantine Greek, perhaps, -- in the Rosenmold genealogy.
Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866
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