Software and Databases for Greek and Linguistics

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Oak Tree Software produces a program that allows Mac users to access the standard grammatically tagged databases and several unique texts as well as offering an interactive atlas and timeline. An emulator lets PC users run this program as well. To learn more about Accordance, click on the image above. Accordance is an extremely powerful program with amazing flexibility. If you work with the Greek New Testament and use a Mac, you should have this program. Windows based software for a similar set of databases is discussed below.

 

The American Classical League provides a listing of software related to Ancient Greek (as well as Latin). The software comes from a wide variety of sources and serves an equally wide range of needs.

Centaur Systems publishes two programs for learning ancient Greek ( Gramma 4.0 and HyperGreek 3.0) and two others on Greek history/ mythology  ( Olympia, Two Greek Myths).

The GRAMCORD Institute is a Washington Non-Profit Corporation that supports and conducts computer-assisted study of biblical languages. Click on the logo to the right to see their web page.
The GRAMCORD Institute produces Windows based software to access the databases it manages. Similar software for the Mac is discussed above.

Hungry Frog Homeric Greek Vocabulary Builder This program is targeted at children in grades 4-12. It teaches the basic vocabulary necessary for an introductory course in Homeric Greek. The child selects words to practice from a main dictionary of 1500 Greek words correlated with 3000 English definitions. Personal dictionaries are automatically saved under the player's name. Up to fifty students can use the same copy of the program, with each having her or his own personal preferences stored. Internal feedback loops focus on problem words. Available for MacOS, Windows 95/98, and Windows NT.

Kalos is a free Classical Greek dictionary with definitions in English, French, and Spanish. The dictionary also includes New Testament / koine vocabulary. You can download a copy from Kalos website. This software is shareware. While you can download it and start using the full program for free, you will face a "nagging" screen from time to time urging you to pay the $29 registration fee.

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The Linguists' Software Home Page offers high quality Greek fonts. The fonts used in both the UBS text and the Nestle-Aland text of the Greek New Testament come from this company, and their products are used around the world. The site also provides information on fonts for languages other than Greek. The prices are high, but the fonts are very good quality and are in wide use. They are worth the investment.

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is the largest existing electronic data bank of Greek texts. It contains most of the ancient Greek literature from Homer (8th century B.C.) to 600 A.D. plus historiographical, lexicographical and scholiastic texts from the period between 600 and 1453 A.D. The TLG Web Page is designed to present general information and answers to frequently asked questions about the TLG.

The Summer Intstitute of Linguistics provides software for linguists on both MacIntosh and Windows platforms. Here is some of what the SIL site says about Shoebox: Shoebox is a database management program designed especially for use by field linguists. It is especially good at interlinearizing text and developing lexicons. It can also be used for cataloging field notes, anthropological information, and grammatical information. Versions for both Mac and Windows are available from the SIL site.