AHC/WI: all hellenic languages extinct by modern day.

Isn't it possible to reconstruct Ancient-Medieval (cutting off TTL I guess at the fall of Constantinople by the Avars and Persians) Greek's phonology to a great degree of accuracy based on analyzing the wealth of texts and sources available and you don't even need modern Greek to help? Wouldn't seem hard to discern Tsakonian is derived from Doric either and thus evolved separately.

Don't forget that under your scenario there will be considerably fewer texts and sources in existance or surviving than in OTL - no Suda, for example. But I'm guessing that the Greek Bible and liturgy will still be in use in slavonic Greece, and perhaps among other slavs, i.e. as a dead ecclesiastical language a bit like Coptic OTL; unless it has been replaced by Latin with the probable dominance of Rome, and no major schism. I think Church Slavonic might well be butterflied away - no saints Cyril or Methodius.

So they will know the grammar and vocabulary of Koine Greek, and try to reconstruct its pronounciation based on the current ecclesiastical pronunciation (inevitably distorted by slavonic speech), and things like the large Greek element in Coptic and in Latin. The differences with Tsakonian they will find puzzling, since they'll assume at first that it's directly descended from the Koine. They'll no doubt discover otherwise eventually.
 
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