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Historically, the development of Greek language can be divided in:

After a long development,<ref>For historical background, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language_question. This reference contains the recommendation for the [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griechische_Sprachfrage article from the German ''Wikipedia''].</ref> monotonic orthography became law in 1982.<ref>See Law 1228/1982 and Decree 297/1982. Both legatl texts were written with polytonic orthography, but they contain the provisions for the monotonic system.</ref> Greek was polytonic before and ancient Greek is polytonic because it was before 1982.<ref>Just in case you may wonder, this is independent from the popular (δημοτική) v. purified (καθαρέυουσα) dispute for Greek language. See Law 309/1976. The legal text was written in the purified Greek, but it ordered the popular Greek to be the official language.</ref> This means that polytonic Greek is not only ancient Greek, since the main part of modern Greek was polytonic.

Monotonic Greek needs the characters from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_and_Coptic “Greek and Coptic” Unicode block] (only the Greek part of it, not the Coptic part).

Just in case you wonder, there are much more fonts that contain glyphs for monotonic Greek that for polytonic Greek.

{{cmd|agr}} or {{cmd|ancientgreek}} are the values for ancient Greek hyphenation patterns.

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Either as {{cmd|mainlanguage}} or {{cmd|language}}, right values are <code>gr</code> or <code>greek</code>.

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Before 1982, Greek orthography was mainly polytonic. In fact, modern<ref>As historical term, modern refers to the period that begins after the Middle Ages.</ref> Greek orthography was mainly polytonic.

ConTeXt has patterns for ancient and monotonic Greek only.

As of current latest (2023.01.15 14:04), language–dependent commands—such as {{cmd|currentdate}}—don’t work. Nobody seemed to need them—especially for current Greek. If you need them, please send a message to the mailing list to extend this.

Since fonts with polytonic Greek also contain monotonic glyphs and fonts with polytonich glyphs are much more scarce, here are some fonts that contain polytonic Greek:

* [https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans/releases/latest Source Sans 3] includes polytonic Greek.

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