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- Katharevousa (Gr****: Καθαρεύουσα, pronounced [kaθaˈrevusa], literally "purifying [language]") is a conservative form of the Modern Gr**** language conceived...
- (Demotic Gr****) or a cultivated literary language based on Ancient Gr**** (Katharevousa) should be the prevailing language of the people and government of Greece...
- "Demotic Gr****" (with a capital D) contrasts with the conservative Katharevousa, which was used in formal settings, during the same period. In that context...
- and Katharevousa) that co-existed in Greece throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries. Varieties of Modern Gr**** include Demotic, Katharevousa, Pontic...
- into Demotic Gr****. The Gr**** language question -the dispute on whether katharevousa or Demotic Gr**** should be used as the language of the state and of the...
- registers (see Diglossia) culminated in the struggle between Dimotiki and Katharevousa during the 19th and 20th centuries. As for regional dialects, variation...
- secondary schools, and also in primary schools (with some katharevousa there since 1881). Katharevousa was still used for every kind of administration and for...
- novel by Gr**** writer Alexandros Papadiamantis. Written in the Gr**** katharevousa, it consists of 17 chapters and was originally published in pieces in...
- Tripoli (Gr****: Τρίπολη, romanized: Trípoli; Katharevousa: Τρίπολις, romanized: Trípolis) is a city in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece....
- corresponding form in Ancient Gr**** and conservative formal Modern Gr**** (Katharevousa) is Ἑλλάς (****as, classical: [hel.lás], modern: [eˈlas]). This is the...