1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Armenian
1.10 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
谢谢
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
晚安
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
原谅我
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Cappadocian Greek
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Greece
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
Not Available
grec moderne (après 1453)
5.3.5 German Name
Not Available
Neugriechisch
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Greeks or Hellenes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Greek
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Greek Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic