1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
North Korea, South Korea
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
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
The National Institute of the Korean Language
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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
1.9 Similar To
Armenian
Chinese and Japanese languages
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
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)
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
하십시오 (hasibsio)
3.9 Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
αντίο (antío)
안녕 (annyeong)
3.11 I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,800.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
50,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Ukraine
China, North Korea
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 million77.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million77.00 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
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
5.3.4 French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
coréen
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Koreans
6 History
6.1 Origin
1500 BC
Before 1st century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Koreanic 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
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Korean 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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative