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Català: Les colònies gregues antigues i els seus grups de dialectes al sud d'Itàlia ( Magna Graecia ).
English: Ancient Greek colonies and their dialect groupings in Southern Italy ( Magna Graecia ).
NW Greek
Achaean
Doric
Ionian
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  • Own work
  • Dialect areas according to: Roger D. Woodard (2008), "Greek dialects", in: The Ancient Languages of Europe , ed. Roger D. Woodard, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p.51. (= partial re-published version of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ancient Languages, 2004). Positions of cities after various on-wiki sources.
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Maps following Woodward 2008

Based on: Roger D. Woodard, "Greek dialects", in The Ancient Languages of Europe , ed. Roger D. Woodard, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, p. 50. (= partial re-published version of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ancient Languages , 2004).

Greece and Anatolia
Magna Graecia

Maps following Horrocks 2006

Based on: G. Horrocks, Ελληνικά: Ιστορία της γλώσσας και των ομιλητών της, Athens, 2006, p. 71 (in turn after J. M. Hall, "The role of language in Greek ethnicities". Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 41 (1995), 83-100).

Original maps (classical era, c. 500 BC)
Derivated maps (c. 400 BC)

Based on Horrocks, with original data (Athenian colonies and coasts in 400 BC):

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Ancient Greek colonies and their dialect groupings in Magna Graecia.

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