Another thought

Submitted by Kepha Hor (United States), Nov 2, 2012 at 21:55

Come to think of it, back before the 20th century, Modern Greek was often called "Romaic"; and under the Ottomans, the Orthodox Eastern Christians (whose liturgical language was Greek) were called the milet-e-Rum (forgive my spelling).

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