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Doric Greek

Doric Greek is an ancient dialect of the Greek language. It preserves long a where other dialects change it to é, as in ga matér "earth mother" (Attic and Koiné gé métér), and preserves original -ti endings that Attic changed to -si (3rd person plural -onti, Attic/Koiné -ousi).

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