These are linguistic terms. But of course, the people who spoke them, especially in the early years, tended to be part of a relatively narrow collection of people, who intermarried with each other chiefly, and therefore developed common cultural characteristics.

这时的希腊语主要是一些语意项,不过当然,那些讲希腊语的人,特别是在早期,是一个相对小范围的人群,他们主要在族群内部通婚,由此,发展出相近的文化特征

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