Katharevousa

The encyclopedia is known for the extensive use of Katharevousa.

Nowadays, Katharevousa is (with a few exceptions) no longer used.

Moreover, there are other categories and forms too that have to do either with Demotic or Katharevousa.

He suggested using Katharevousa for parliamentary proceedings, for example, but popular language for poetry.

The following examples are intended to demonstrate Katharevousa's features in Modern Greek.

The village is also called Eleftherai (in Katharevousa).

There was no single Katharevousa.

From the late 19th century onwards, written Demotic rather than Katharevousa became the primary medium of literature.

In the early 19th century, Katharevousa emerged as a compromise language, an artificial effort to blend written and spoken Greek.

Because of the influence of Katharevousa, however, Demotic is not commonly used in its purest form.

See also Katharevousa.

From the early nineteenth century until the mid twentieth century Katharevousa, a form of Greek, was used for literary purposes.

This is a text sample of Katharevousa from the Great Greek Encyclopedia, published in 1930.

Government documents and newspapers were consequently published in Katharevousa (purified) Greek, a form which few ordinary Greeks could read.

Michaelides wrote several poems in Katharevousa, Dhimotiki and the Cypriot Dialect.

On the other hand, from Katharevousa, nouns such as μυς (mys, "muscle") follow the ancient declension in all cases except for the dative.

In 1976, however, the Hellenic Parliament voted to make the spoken Dimotiki the official language, making Katharevousa obsolete.

Haliacmon is the traditional English name for the river, but many sources cite the formerly official Katharevousa version of the name, Aliákmon.

This created a diglossic situation whereby most of the Greek population was excluded from the public sphere and advancement in education unless they conformed to Katharevousa.

The dispute was finally resolved in 1976, when Dimotiki was made the only official variation of the Greek language, and Katharevousa fell to disuse.

In Modern Greek, subscript iota was generally retained in use in the spelling of the archaizing Katharevousa.

Morphological features: Strict Katharevousa used the ancient dative case, many participles and various additional tenses and conjugational patterns of verbs.

As an MP, he took part in the dispute on the Greek language question, defending the use of the Demotic Greek against Katharevousa.

By that time, however, the form of Demotic used in practice was no longer the pure popular dialect, but had begun to assimilate elements from the Katharevousa tradition again.

Both were written in Koine Greek while her contemporaries used either Katharevousa or the so-called Demotic version of Modern Greek.