Editing Doric Greek (section)

====Corinthian====
[[Image:GreeceCorinth.png|thumb|upright=0.6|Corinthia in Greece]]

'''Corinthian''' was spoken first in the isthmus region between the Peloponnesus and mainland [[Greece]]; that is, the [[Isthmus of Corinth]]. The cities and states of the Corinthian dialect region were [[Corinth]], [[Sicyon]], [[Archaies Kleones]], [[Phlius]], the colonies of Corinth in western Greece: [[Corfu|Corcyra]], [[Lefkada|Leucas]], [[Anaktorio|Anactorium]], [[Ambracia]] and others, the colonies in and around Italy: [[Syracuse, Sicily]] and [[Ancona]], and the colonies of [[Corfu|Corcyra]]: [[Dyrrachium]], and [[Apollonia (Illyria)|Apollonia]]. The earliest inscriptions at Corinth date from the early sixth century BC.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SDG/is_3_73/ai_n13493402/pg_6 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011033627/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SDG/is_3_73/ai_n13493402/pg_6 | archive-date=11 October 2008 | title=Apollo and the Archaic temple at Corinth &#124; Hesperia &#124; Find Articles at BNET }}</ref> They use a Corinthian epichoric alphabet. (See under [[Attic Greek]].)

Corinth contradicts the prejudice that Dorians were rustic militarists, as some consider the speakers of Laconian to be. Positioned on an international trade route, Corinth played a leading part in the re-civilizing of Greece after the centuries of disorder and isolation following the collapse of Mycenaean Greece.