1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Armenian
Chinese Language
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
Arabic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
你好吗？
3.4 Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Greece
outside mainland China
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?
13.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
Not Available
5.3.5 German Name
Neugriechisch
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Not Available
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
56-AAA-a
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available