> I can manage koine (I can read it, though I wouldn't be able to, you know, speak it) We don't really know what Koine Greek sounded like but it certainly does

> I can manage koine (I can read it, though I wouldn't be able to, you know, speak it) We don't really know what Koine Greek sounded like but it certainly doesn't sound anything close to modern Greek. Having several years of academic Koine Greek and Classical Greek I am almost able to make out quite a bit of modern Greek. I swear modern Greek and Konie are closer then Shakespeare and modern English. Classical Greek possibly how it sounded - https://www.npr.org/2016/08/25/491389975/the-sound-of-ancient-greek-in-the-illiad https://www.npr.org/2016/08/25/491389975/the-sound-of-ancien... In Seminary we talked about the tonality of the language but we lost all that. Chinese for example is tonal.