Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976 - Peter Mackridge - Google Books

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This is a history of the great language controversy that has occupied and impassioned Greeks - sometimes with fatal results - for over two hundred years. It begins in the late eighteenth century when a group of Greek intellectuals sought to develop a new,…