Attic greek is the greek dialect of the ancient city state of athens of the ancient dialects it is the most similar to later greek and is the standard form of the language that is studied in ancient greek language courses attic greek is sometimes included in the ionic dialect together attic and ionic are the primary influences on modern greek.
Attic greek long alpha.
This is a so called long diphthong because it is a combination of ᾱ and ι whereas αι combines ᾰ and ι the recommended pronunciation reflects postclassical practice.
In the attic dialect of greek long alpha is somewhat rare because of a historical change of aː to ɛː when not preceded by e i or r.
Attic greek also had an h sound that only came at the beginning of some words.
Ancient greek speakers tended to avoid pronouncing two different vowel sounds in a row.
If two vowels came together they preferred either to pronounce the two vowels together as one sound called a diphthong greek for double sound or to contract the two vowels to form either a single long vowel or diphthong cf.
Greek is a branch of the indo european language family which includes english in historical times it already existed in several dialects see article on greek dialects one of which was attic.
Attic greek in school it is very easy to study koine or read the new testament.
In the fifth century this was a true diphthong but the iota part of the sound weakened during the fourth century to a glide and then disappeared.
This sound was not shown by a separate letter but by a rough breathing mark ἑ placed above the initial vowel of a word and pronounced before the vowel.
If attic greek is the horse and koine greek is the donkey well septuagint greek is something of a mule.
Alpha long father short drama.
The α in the second syllable of ἁμαδρυάς is not preceded by one of those sounds so i m not sure how it could be long.
Two vowels in a row.
In attic greek most feminine nouns of the first declension have eta throughout the singular because long alpha was usually changed to eta in this dialect except after epsilon iota or rho.