1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Russia
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Armenian
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Latin
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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
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)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
спасибо(spasibo)
3.3 How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
αντίο (antío)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Greece
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,800.0030,000.00
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 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Russki
5.3.4 French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
russe
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Russians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic 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
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Signed Russian
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
Fusional, Synthetic