Achaean Doric Greek may refer to:

• TheDoric Greek dialect spoken inAchaea in the NW Peloponnese, on the islands ofCephalonia andZakynthos in the Ionian Sea and in the Achaean colonies ofMagna Graecia in Southern Italy (includingSybaris andCrotone). Thisstrict Doric dialect was later subject to the influence ofmild Doric spoken inCorinthia. It survived to 350 BC.^[3] According toHesychius,Achaeans means "the Greeks but foremost those inhabiting part of the Peloponnese, called Achaea",^[4] and he gives these words under the ethnic Achaeans:
  • καιρότερονkairoteron (Attic: ἐνωρότερον enôroteron) "earlier" (kairos time, enôros early cf.Horae)
  • κεφαλίδαςkephalidas (Attic: κόρσαι korsai) "sideburns" (kephalides was also an alternative forepalxeis 'bastions' in Greek proper)
  • σιαλίςsialis (Attic: βλέννος blennos) (cf.blennorrhea)slime, mud (Greeksialon orsielonsaliva, modern Greek σάλιο salio)

• Achaean DoricKoine. The common dialect, used in the decrees of theAchaean League. InArcadia it can be traced very easily because it differs considerably from the old non-Doric Arcadian (seeArcadocypriot Greek). In Achaea itself it held its ground until the 1st century BC. The Achaean Doric Koine did not develop the extreme features that are typical of the Aegean Doric and North-West Doric Koine.

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• Ancient Arcadia
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