North-Western Greek
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North-Western Greek (NW Greek) was a Greek dialect spoken in the North-West of Greece (modern Epirus, West Greece, western Central Greece and the modern Ionian Islands) in Classical Antiquity. It was closely related to Doric Greek, forming the "Western" (or "Northern") group of Greek dialects. Both NW Greek and Doric are in some respects more archaic than the other Greek dialects. Historically, they probably originated to the North of Greek (in the "Balkans"), and enter the Greek mainland during the Greek Dark Ages (ca. 1000 BC), displacing earlier dialects, that had entered Greece with the first wave of hellenic settlers about a millennium earlier
