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	Greece Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...demotic and a formal version known as katharevousa, which was developed in the eighteenth...did not favor any regional dialect. Katharevousa spread quickly among political leaders...demotic Greek by the twentieth century. Katharevousa was used for most state documents...
	Greek language Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...written form until recently. The latter, referred to as katharevousa, was used by the government, the schools, and the mass...has more foreign loan words and a simpler grammar than katharevousa. Although a literature in dēmotikē developed...
	Greeks Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...conversation, and varies by region. It includes words from Slavic languages, Turkish, and Italian. The more formal version, Katharevousa , is used by the government and the press. It originated in the early nineteenth century in an attempt to revive ancient...
	Greek Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...in c. 1000 ad . After the fall of Byzantium, it developed two forms: ‘ demotiki ’, the spoken language also used in most literary forms, and ‘ katharevousa ’, used in official documents.

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	IT'S GREEK TO ME.(history and development of the Greek language)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...independent nation, the question of a national language arose. Katharevousa (ka-theh-REV-eh-sa), a compromise between Byzantine...became the official language from 1834 until 1976. Although Katharevousa is still used in official documents, Demotic (di-MOT...
	A Brief Look at Greece. Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea); 3/26/2001; 677 words ; ...standardized version of the language and differs substantially from Katharevousa, the artificial language loosely based on Ancient Greek...by various right-wing puritanical regimes this century. Katharevousa is still evident on street signs and can cause endless confusion...
	Behind 'The Magus.'(John Fowles Issue) Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 3/22/1996; 700+ words ; ...passage that follows. I had totally forgotten it. I had arrived at the boarding-school on the island of Spetsai (in katharevousa, the so-called "pure" form of Modern Greek; it is Spetses in the domotic) at the beginning of January 1952. If Athens...
	Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition.(Review) Magazine article from: History Today; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...nothing less than the whole history of Greece, the Greeks and Hellenism, from Homer to Mikis Theodhorakis, from Linear B to katharevousa and demotic, from Pericles to Andreas Papandreou, from the drachma of classical Athens to the soon-to-be abolished...
	Data from the Decade of the Sixties: A Novel.(Review) Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...they can, but much is lost in the English. For example, one of the writers requesting emigration makes an error in his katharevousa (puristic Greek), writing pro dyo mines instead of pro dyo minon. The translators render this "two months a go," with...
	C. P. Cavafy. Collected Poems.(The Unfinished Poems)(Book review) Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...intricately woven texture of the poet's language, which combines the classic forms of vocabulary and grammar known as "Katharevousa" with demotic Greek. Unlike previous translators of Cavafy, not only do Mendelsohn's translations convey the mingling...
	The 1821 bungled uprising. Newspaper article from: Cyprus Mail (Cyprus); 7/12/2009; 700+ words ; ...alongside the sailboat as one of the two men on deck catches the line and the other shouts (what were to become) fateful katharevousa in exchange for demotic greetings. Long, rectangular wooden boxes are then hastily offloaded over the side of the sailboat...
	The Swiss referendum on asylum seekers. Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...German and spoken nowhere else. It is not written. When the Swiss German-speakers wish to write, they write their own Katharevousa, which is High German. All this is typically Swiss. The second largest group, the French-speakers, have generally...
	Dimitris S. Loukatos, 1908-2003.(In Memoriam)(Obituary) Magazine article from: Folklore; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...excelled as a pupil and, like the minority of his generation who received schooling, he was taught through the medium of katharevousa--the archaic pure form of the Greek language. Outside school he was also attentive to the language and customs of his...
	Paperbacks ; THE NEW REVIEW Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 6/3/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...conviction. His idiom swings from slangy demotic to the most august Attic. In between we find Byzantine, Hellenistic and katharevousa forms. To translate him accurately you would have to move from street-speak to Anglo-Saxon, from the internet chat...