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Achaean Doric Greek

Not to be confused with Achaean Greek, an alternative name for the Mycenaean Greek language and civilization.

Achaean Doric Greek may refer to:

Doric of Achaea

The Doric Greek dialect spoken in Achaea in the NW Peloponnese, on the islands of Cephallenia and Zacynthus in the Ionian Sea and in the Achaean colonies of Magna Graecia in Southern Italy (including Sybaris and Crotone). This strict Doric dialect was later subject to the influence of mild Doric spoken in Corinthia. It survived to 350 BC. According to Hesychius Achaeans means the Greeks but foremost those inhabiting part of the Peloponnese, called Achaea and gives these words under the ethnic Achaeans:
- kairoteron Greek enôroteron earlier (kairos time, enôros early cf. Horae)
- kephalides for standard Greek korsai sideburns (kephalides was also an alternative for epalxeis 'bastions' in Greek proper)
- sialis Greek blennos (cf. blennorrhea) , mud. (Greek sialon or sielon saliva, modern Greek σάλιο salio)