hellenophone

Example Sentences

• "No need to emphasize the fact that the Hellenophone people – metallarii as well as the other inhabitants of mining territories – were both numerous and prominent."
• "First, the earliest Christians in Africa of whom we have evidence are Punic, and not part of the cultured elite who might have contact with Hellenophone culture."
• "Butterfield (2009) stresses the dialogic nature of the formation of an English vernacular, which emerged from a Francophone environment that embraced England along with France: again, there are thought-provoking parallels with the Hellenophone environment from which a vernacular Latin literature emerged."
• "The Orthodox, separated from Rome, are divided into two factions which differ in language and origin, and live in enmity: on one side, the Hellenophones, many of whom are natives of the Greek kingdom; on the other, the Arabophones, subject to the khedive or natives of Syria; all these have a patriarch of Greek tongue and race whose official residence is in the town, near the church of St. Sabas."
• "A third group of Hellenophones were those Dawkins studied in the twenty Cappadocian villages located about the regions of Nigde and Kayseri."
• "Thus, faulting Robert Browning’s translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon for being “interlingua,” “a centaur-idiom” that imposes the vocabulary, syntax, and phonology of ancient Greek on his own Victorian English, George Steiner (the trilingual critic who pointedly titled a 1972 volume of essays on language and literature Extraterritorial) pronounced it “a no-man’s-land in psychological and linguistic space”—hence a text treacherous for both Hellenophones and Anglophones because it occupies a space outside either language."