Claude Brixhe (24 April 1933 – 2 March 2021)[1] was a French linguist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Nancy in France.
[3] In a 1993 article, Brixhe wrote about the influence of koine on the Doric dialect Cretan.
He studied Cretan inscriptions from the Hellenistic period and substantiated the presence of forms that were a product of linguistic admixture, as well as those that could be attributed to koine.
Araceli Striano writes: "This fact highlighted something which scholars had already suspected: koine did not suddenly replace the local dialects nor did those dialects disappear abruptly.
On the contrary, the process of linguistic leveling in the Greek-speaking world was rather gradual, fostering the emergence of standard local varieties with their own distinctive particularities due to the coexistence of koine and different variants of ancient Greek.