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32: 1413:) camp within the proponents of Demotic's use. Eventually these ideas of radical demoticism were largely marginalized and when a standardized Demotic was made the official language of the Greek state in 1976, the legislation stated that it would be used "without dialectal and extremist forms"—an explicit rejection of Psycharis' ideals. 627:—numerous words, grammatical forms, and phonetical features that did not exist in the most "pure" and consistent forms of Demotic during the period of diglossia in Greece. Due to these admixtures, it could even be described as a product of a "merger" between earlier Demotic and Katharevousa. 655:), where they are used mostly in writing (for instance, in newspapers), but also orally, especially words and fixed expressions are both understood and actively used also by non-educated speakers. In some cases, the Demotic form is used for literal or practical meanings, while the 2223: 306:)). Another feature is the merging of classical accusative and nominative forms: They are only distinguished in Demotic by their definite articles, which continued to be declined as in Ancient Greek. This was especially common with nouns of the third declension, such as 568:
used with either the simplified or fused future/subjunctive forms. In contrast to this, Katharevousa employed older perfective forms and infinitives that had been mostly lost in the spoken language. However, Katharevousa did sometimes employ the same
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situations, Katharevousa and Demotic complemented and influenced each other. Over time, Demotic became standardized. In 1976, it was made the official language of Greece. It continued to evolve and is now called
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The following examples are intended to demonstrate Katharevousa features in Modern Greek. They were not present in traditional Demotic and only entered the modern language through Katharevousa (sometimes as
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The verb system inherited from Ancient Greek gradually evolved. The perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, and past conditional tenses were gradually replaced with conjugated forms of the verb
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Native Greek speakers, depending upon their level of education, may often make mistakes in these "educated" aspects of their language; one can often see mistakes like
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Demotic Greek also borrowed a significant number of words from other languages, including Italian and Turkish, something which Katharevousa avoided.
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contracted with the definite article of a second noun distinguishes between definite direct and indirect objects, whether real or figurative, e.g. «
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Demotic Greek differs in a few ways from Ancient Greek and from subsequent learned forms of Greek. Syntactically, it favors
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is used without the article to express an indefinite duration of time, or contracted with the definite article for
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Greek noun declensions underwent considerable alteration, with irregular and less productive forms being gradually
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As written and spoken Demotic became standardized over the next few decades, many compromises were made with
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or perfective forms as the spoken language, but preferred an archaizing form of the present indicative, e.g.
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in 1976, the official language of Greece. "Demotic Greek" (with a capital D) contrasts with the conservative
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One of the most radical proponents of a language that was to be cleansed of all "educated" elements was
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A result of this regularization of noun forms in Demotic is that most native words end in a vowel,
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Modern Greek features many letter combinations that were avoided in traditional Demotic:
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forms of Greek used by the vast majority of Greeks during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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are also rare, again mainly occurring in learned discourse and via foreign loans:
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For instance, Psycharis proposed changing the form of the neuter noun "light"
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and all instances of double consonants. Therefore, he wrote his own name as
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Using one noun with an unmarked accusative article-noun phrase followed by
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with great frequency, to the point that many Demotic forms are in effect
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for the wing of a building or airplane or arm of an organisation.
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diminutives of ancient words, especially irregular ones, e.g.
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By contrast, Katharevousa continued to employ the older
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27:24; for actual hand-washing, the Demotic phrase is
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is used for figurative or specialized meanings: e.g.
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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. 1513: 1183:"I was sufficed / satisfied"); Demotic preferred 2246: 630:Furthermore, in a broader sense, the Greek term 611:Demotic is commonly used interchangeably with " 674: 1593: 1502: 1500: 1498: 1496: 1494: 1492: 1490: 1488: 1486: 646:Modern features that did not exist in Demotic 2163:Institute for Language and Speech Processing 460:is usually expressed by prepending the word 1563: 1551: 1408: 1391: 1385: 1370: 1362: 1354: 1346: 1327: 1300: 1294: 1284: 1278: 1268: 1262: 1252: 1246: 1236: 1230: 1218: 1208: 1202: 1190: 1184: 1174: 1164: 1158: 1146: 1140: 1130: 1124: 1117: 1108: 1102: 1091: 1085: 1076: 1070: 1045: 1031: 1018: 1008: 992: 986: 980: 974: 965: 959: 953: 947: 927: 911: 895: 883: 871: 859: 847: 835: 823: 811: 637: 631: 617: 601: 590: 563: 557: 547: 538: 532: 508: 502: 496: 484: 461: 408: 370: 360: 352: 340: 327: 321: 297: 264: 152: 1600: 1586: 1483: 1475:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 1456: 1116:"building, structure"); Demotic preferred 1541: 116:Learn how and when to remove this message 2255:Languages attested from the 19th century 2234:Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries 1061: 589:), which both have the same aorist form 403:). Many dialects even append the vowel - 665:for the wing or feather of a bird, but 2247: 1523:; Philippaki-Warburton, Irene (1997). 1465:] (in Greek). Athens. p. 474. 1581: 1510:(New York: 1965 & 1982; 2000 ed.) 1312: 146: 1463:Dictionary of the new Greek language 1428: 1426: 941:Grammatical (morphological) features 54:adding citations to reliable sources 25: 1508:The Pocket Oxford Greek Dictionary. 1139:"falsity, lie"); Demotic preferred 1030:Reduplication in the perfect. E.g. 13: 1607: 1084:"misdemeanor"); Demotic preferred 607:Demotic as "Standard Modern Greek" 14: 2281: 1459:Lexiko tis neas ellinikis glossas 1423: 1403:(as is reflected in contemporary 202: 195:which has evolved naturally from 1217:"yesterday"); Demotic preferred 477:for accusative of motion toward) 30: 2153:Hellenic Foundation for Culture 1027:) - mostly in written language. 1000:) - mostly in written language. 41:needs additional citations for 16:Vernacular form of Modern Greek 1450: 504:βάζω το χέρι μου στο ευαγγέλιο 413:) to third-person verb forms: 1: 2158:Center for the Greek Language 1716: 1703: 1690: 1677: 1664: 1457:Babiniotis, Georgios (2002). 1416: 515:I put my hand upon the Gospel 249:). Demotic also employs the 7: 675:Words and fixed expressions 638: 247:he-went-back-to-sleep again 141: 10: 2286: 473: 376: 320:) which became nominative 307: 292: 274: 215:. 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