1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Macedonia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
1.7 Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
1.9 Similar To
Armenian
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian 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
Arabic, Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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)
Здраво (Zdravo)
3.2 Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
3.3 How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
3.5 Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Добар ден (Dobar den)
3.7 Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
3.9 Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
жал (žal)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
3.12 Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Torlakian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Greece
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,800.001.50
1.5
960000000
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 million2.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million2.50 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ελληνικά
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
5.3.4 French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
macédonien
5.3.5 German Name
Neugriechisch
Makedonisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
5.5 Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Macedonians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
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
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Macedonian 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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic