Appendix:Ancient Greek dialects

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  • West Greek
    • Northwest Greek
      • Phocian
        • Delphian
      • Locrian
      • Elean
    • Doric
      • Laconian
      • Heraclean
      • Messenian (sparsely attested)
      • Megarian
      • Corinthian
        • Corcyraean
      • Argolic
      • Rhodian
      • Coan (and Calymnian)
      • Theran (and Melian)
      • Cretan
  • East Greek
    • Attic–Ionic
      • Attic
      • Ionic
        • Euboean
    • Arcado-Cyprian
      • Arcadian
      • Cyprian
    • Aeolic
      • Lesbian
      • Boeotian
      • Thessalian
  • Note that here "Lesbian" is used to refer to Lesbian Aeolic, the dialect used by the poets Sappho and Alcaeus. While this dialect is often referred to as simply "Aeolic", the term "Aeolic" can also be used to refer to Lesbian as well as the closely related dialects of Thessalian and Boeotian, and so the term "Lesbian" is used to avoid confusion.

Dialectal inflection tables provided by Wiktionary are often based on conjecture. For example, very few forms of the dual or vocative are attested anywhere, and so they are simply supplied in tables as in Attic in most cases. Additionally, quirks peculiar to a single city, or rare alternate spellings, are omitted in tables for the sake of brevity. "In all other dialects" below should be read as "in all other dialects in which the form is attested" in many cases. For the most part, spellings are given c. 400 BC, and normalized to the polytonic Ionic alphabet.