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Where was the Ionic-Attic dialect group spoken?

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During the first half of the 1st millennium BCE, the Ionic-Attic dialect group was spoken in the following regions:1

  • Attica1
  • Euboea (including its colonies such as Catana and Cumae)1
  • Northern Cyclades1
  • Asiatic Ionia (including colonies founded in the Pontus region of the Black Sea)1