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    Default Koinon Hellenon?

    "Koinon Hellenon" should be "Koinon Ellenon", due to the fact that greeks of that time didn't use the /h/ sound (even further back in history, however, they did); the eta letter (H) was, at the start of EB's timeframe, pronunced "e".


    Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H


    Edit: Changed "ê" to "e".
    Last edited by Brynjolfr; 01-13-2008 at 22:48.

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