 It arose as a mixed vernacular among ordinary people in the Peiraieus, the seaport of Athens, which was inhabited by Greeks from different parts of the Mediterranean.Through koineization, new dialect varieties are brought about as a result of contact between speakers of mutually intelligible varieties of that language.Koineization is a particular case of dialect contact and how it typically occurs in new settlements to which people have migrated from different parts of a single language area.