[Tax-chick]

The citizens of Byzantium spoke Greek.

So they claim, but do you have any actual recordings of them speaking it? It could have been closer to Anatolian.

I claim to speak English, but if you asked an English person ... say, my sister-in-law ... you'd get an earful!

[dfwgator]

It’s all Greek to me.

[Biggirl]

You would have to ask NYer, who would know about Eastern Rite Catholic Christian stuff.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Well since Byzantium fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 recordings would be a problem. However, in their writings and chronolgies they wrote in Greek and spoke in greek. Now to be sure their Greek is not the Greek spoken today but a more ancient form.

As to English, well was it Oscar Wilde who said England and America were separated by a common language?