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Attic Greek is the dialect of the Greek language
that was spoken in Attica, which includes Athens. Of the ancient dialects, it is the
most similar to later Greek. It differs from Ionic in not changing the neuter
plural ending to "ê", from Doric (?) in changing some long "a" to "ê", from
Homeric in not losing the augment on the past tenses, and from Koine and most of the other dialects in saying "tt" for "ss" (e.g. tettares tattomenoi for
tessares tassomenoi).
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