![]() In the north, local epigraphical evidence includes the decrees of the Epirote League, the Pella curse tablet, three additional lesser known Macedonian inscriptions (all of them identifiable as Doric), numerous inscriptions from a number of Greek colonies. The dialect's distribution towards the north extends to the Megarian colony of Byzantium and the Corinthian colonies of Potidaea, Epidamnos, Apollonia and Ambracia there, it further added words to what would become the Albanian language, probably via traders from a now-extinct Illyrian intermediary. The presence of a Doric state ( Doris) in central Greece, north of the Gulf of Corinth, led to the theory that Doric had originated in northwest Greece or maybe beyond in the Balkans. 1150 BC) and the colonisations that followed. It was expanded to all other regions during the Dorian invasion (c. It is widely accepted that Doric originated in the mountains of Epirus in northwestern Greece, the original seat of the Dorians. The only living descendant of Doric is the Tsakonian language which is still spoken in Greece today though critically endangered, with only a few hundred – mostly elderly – fluent speakers left. īy Hellenistic times, under the Achaean League, an Achaean Doric koine appeared, exhibiting many peculiarities common to all Doric dialects, which delayed the spread of the Attic-based Koine Greek to the Peloponnese until the 2nd century BC. It was also spoken in the Greek sanctuaries of Dodona, Delphi, and Olympia, as well as at the four Panhellenic festivals the Isthmian, Nemean, Pythian, and Olympic Games. Doric was spoken in a vast area, that included northern Greece ( Acarnania, Aetolia, Epirus, western and eastern Locris, Phocis, Doris, and possibly ancient Macedonia), most of the Peloponnese (Achaea, Elis, Messenia, Laconia, Argolid, Aegina, Corinth, and Megara), the southern Aegean ( Kythira, Milos, Thera, Crete, Karpathos, and Rhodes), as well as the colonies of some of the aforementioned regions, in Cyrene, Magna Graecia, the Black Sea, the Ionian Sea and the Adriatic Sea. ![]() Doric or Dorian ( Ancient Greek: Δωρισμός, romanized: Dōrismós), also known as West Greek, was a group of Ancient Greek dialects its varieties are divided into the Doric proper and Northwest Doric subgroups. ![]()
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