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The Greek language has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BCE. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for most of its history, although Linear B and other systems were used previously.

Wikisource hosts copies of the following works on the Greek language:


 * A Greek-English Lexicon, by Liddell & Scott (1901)
 * Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, by William Watson Goodwin (1890)
 * The Vocabulary of Menander, by Donald Blythe Durham (1913)
 * "On the Homeric Use of the word Ἥρως", The Philological Museum, vol. 2 (1833)
 * "The Termination -κός, as used by Aristophanes for Comic Effect", Am. Jour. of Phil. 31(4): 428–444 (1910)
 * "The Suffix -μα in Aristophanes", Am. Journ. of Phil. 37(4): 459–465 (1916)
 * "The Suffix -μα in Aristophanes", Am. Journ. of Phil. 37(4): 459–465 (1916)