Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
Please
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
Bye
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Greece
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
anglais
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Modern Greek
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
ells
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic