Editing Doric Greek (section)

====Northwest Doric koine====
[[File:Macedonia_and_the_Aegean_World_c.200.png|thumb|right|300px|Political situation in the Greek world around the time at which the Northwest Doric koine arose]]

The Northwest Doric koine refers to a supraregional North-West common variety that emerged in the third and second centuries BC, and was used in the official texts of the [[Aetolian League]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author= Vit Bubenik| title= Variety of speech in Greek linguistics: The dialects and the ''koinè''|editor=Sylvain Auroux |display-editors=etal| encyclopedia=Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Entwicklung der Sprachforschung von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart.|volume= Band 1| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mL9erLJ5afUC&pg=RA1-PA439|year=2000|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|place=Berlin and New York|page=441 f| isbn=978-3-11-011103-3}}</ref><ref name=Filos230_3>{{cite encyclopedia |author=Panagiotis Filos |editor1=Georgios Giannakis |editor2= Emilio Crespo |editor3= Panagiotis Filos |title=The Dialectal Variety of Epirus |encyclopedia= Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects: From Central Greece to the Black Sea |date=2017 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter|location= Berlin and Boston |pages=230–233}}</ref> Such texts have been found in W. Locris, Phocis, and Phtiotis, among other sites.<ref>{{cite book|author=Vit Bubenik|title=Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a Sociolinguistic Area|place=Amsterdam|year=1989|pages=193–213}}</ref> It contained a mix of native Northwest Doric dialectal elements and Attic forms.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Wojciech Sowa|editor1=Matthias Fritz |editor2=Brian Joseph |editor3=Jared Klein |page=715|title=Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics |date=2018 |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |isbn=978-3-11-054036-9 |chapter=The dialectology of Greek|quote=In different regions of Greece, however, different sorts of koinai emerged, of which the best known was the Doric Koinē, preserving general Doric features, but without local differences, and with an admixture of Attic forms. As in the case of the Doric Koinē, the Northwest Koinē (connected with the so-called Aetolian League) displayed the same mixture of native dialectal elements with Attic elements.}}</ref> It was apparently based on the most general features of Northwest Doric, eschewing less common local traits.<ref name=Filos230_3/><ref>{{cite book|author=S. Minon|date=2014|chapter=Diffusion de l'attique et expansion des ''koinai'' dans le Péloponnèse et en Grèce centrale|title=Actes de la journée internationale de dialectologie grecque du 18 mars 2011, université Paris-Ouest Nanterre|place=Geneva|pages=1–18}}</ref>

Its rise was driven by both linguistic and non-linguistic factors, with non-linguistic motivating factors including the spread of the rival Attic-Ionic koine after it was recruited by the Macedonian state for administration, and the political unification of a vast territories by the Aetolian League and the state of Epirus. The Northwest Doric koine was thus both a linguistic and a political rival of the Attic-Ionic koine.<ref name=Filos230_3/>