Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. language-related concepts
5. [languages and writing systems]
6. [languages and writing systems by specific type]
7. Indo-European (language family)
8. Greek (language)

Anotations

Scope note:

Based chiefly on the Attic dialect, Koine was a fairly uniform Hellenistic Greek spoken and written from the 4th century BCE until the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian in the mid-6th century CE. Used in Greece, Macedonia, and the parts of Africa and the Middle East. The divergences of the Koine from Classical norms gave rise in the 1st century to a purist movement known as Atticism, which had little effect on the everyday spoken language although it influenced the written language, causing it to have archaizing tendencies.