Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Roman Empire
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Armenian
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
αντίο (antío)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Greece
  
Nepal
  
Dialect 2
Griko
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Mariupol
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Ukraine
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
ελληνικά
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
népalais
  
German Name
Neugriechisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Hellenic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
el
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ell
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
gre
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
ell
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
ells
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
gree1276
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative