# Why Is It That Ancient Greek Reconstructed Pronunciation Is Always Used For Koine? Tags: pronunciation, greek, reconstruction - Score: 4 - Views: 1310 - Answers: 1 - Answered: yes - Asked by: Matthew T. Scarbrough (1023 rep) - Asked: 2017-08-12 - Site: linguistics ## Question By the time of Koine greek, in general, it was much the same as today, but I always see the Ancient Greek pronunciation being taught, why is this? Is is it because most people learning koine in english tend to be Christian and learn it purely for just for biblical interpretation, not for to be fluent? ## Answers ### Answer by Nick Nicholas (score: 5) Much simpler reason. The teaching of Koine Greek is dependent on the local tradition for the teaching of Classical Greek: Classical Greek is more prestigious in language teaching, and is how most language teachers and linguists have been exposed to pre-Modern Greek. There was not a strong impetus for a separate tradition of pronouncing Koine in teaching to evolve: whatever the local convention was for pronouncing Classical Greek was simply carried over to Koine. And that's not that absurd an outcome. It is practical—the local convention for pronouncing C