Herodotus was a historian who lived during the 5th century BC (484 BC-425 BC). He is known for his writing 'history', a collection of stories about various places and people he collected along his journey. Because of this work, he is often regarded as the 'father of history'.
Greeks scientific contribution in the linguistic world that is their foresight in observing the growth of language as the result of interactions in the field of trade and political diplomacy between the Greeks with foreign nations and also regions occupied colony. This interaction brings a change of language in terms of the exchange of lexical (borrowing), sentence patterns, and changes of the meaning of an utterance. As a result, the Greek language which was a monolect turned into a lot of dialects (multilect). The study of Greek language dialect was first introduced by Herodotus.
Greek dialect development poses a problem to be solved, which dialect should be used by the scholars? in learning the various dialects of Greek, Herodotus examine the foreign words into the Greek language. Herodotus suggests the scholar to use the dialect used by the Homeric scholar who has truly mastered the works of Homer, the most famous of which is the Iliad and Odyssey. He realized that the language used in Homer's works do not follow the dialects used by the Greeks at the time, in other words, the language used in the works of Homer is a Greek word which is still 'original' that have not been 'contaminated' by foreign languages. These works occupy a high position in the world of Greek education at that time, scholars make it as a reference source in moral education.
Greeks scientific contribution in the linguistic world that is their foresight in observing the growth of language as the result of interactions in the field of trade and political diplomacy between the Greeks with foreign nations and also regions occupied colony. This interaction brings a change of language in terms of the exchange of lexical (borrowing), sentence patterns, and changes of the meaning of an utterance. As a result, the Greek language which was a monolect turned into a lot of dialects (multilect). The study of Greek language dialect was first introduced by Herodotus.
Greek dialect development poses a problem to be solved, which dialect should be used by the scholars? in learning the various dialects of Greek, Herodotus examine the foreign words into the Greek language. Herodotus suggests the scholar to use the dialect used by the Homeric scholar who has truly mastered the works of Homer, the most famous of which is the Iliad and Odyssey. He realized that the language used in Homer's works do not follow the dialects used by the Greeks at the time, in other words, the language used in the works of Homer is a Greek word which is still 'original' that have not been 'contaminated' by foreign languages. These works occupy a high position in the world of Greek education at that time, scholars make it as a reference source in moral education.
