What is Doric Greek?
{{Infobox language |name = Doric Greek |nativename = Δωρισμός |pronunciation = |region = [[Peloponnese]], [[Crete]], [[Rhodes]], [[Sicily]], [[Italy]] |era = c. 800–100 BC; changed into the [[Tsakonian language]] |familycolor = Indo-European |fam2 = [[Hellenic languages|Hellenic]] |fam3 = [[Ancient Greek dialects|Ancient Greek]] |fam4 = Western |isoexception = dialect |linglist = grc-dor |glotto = dori1248 |glottorefname = Doric }} '''Doric''' or '''Dorian''' ({{lang-grc|Δωρισμός|Dōrismós}}) was a [[Hellenic language]]. It was a [[dialect]] of [[Ancient Greek language|Ancient Greek]]. It was spoken in Western [[Greece]] and some parts of Southern [[Italy]] and [[Sicily]].<ref>{{cite journal |first=Carl Darling |last=Buck |title=The Source of the So-Called Achaean-Doric κοινη |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_american-journal-of-philology_1900_21_2/page/193 |journal=American Journal of Philology|year=1900 |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=193–196 |doi=10.2307/287905 |jstor=287905 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Hellenic languages]]