1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Roman Empire
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
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
γεια σας (geia sas)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
αντίο (antío)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Greece
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,800.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Italy
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
50,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Ukraine
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
chinois
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
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 Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating