1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.4 National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
South Africa
1.5 Second Language
Roman Empire
Lesotho, South Africa
1.6 Speaking Continents
1.7 Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Botswana, Lesotho
1.8 Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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1.10 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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.12 Similar To
Armenian
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.14 Derived From
Latin
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
3.3 Phonology
3.3.1 How Many Vowels
3.4.2 How Many Consonants
3.5 Scripts
3.6 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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3.7 Hard to Learn
3.7.1 Language Levels
3.10.2 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
4.2 Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Ndiyabulela
4.3 How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Unjani
4.4 Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Ulale kakuhle
4.5 Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Ubusuku obuhle
4.6 Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
4.7 Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Molo
4.8 Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Ndicela
4.9 Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Ndicela uxolo
4.10 Bye
αντίο (antío)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
4.11 I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Ndiyakuthanda
4.12 Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Uxolo
5 Dialects
5.1 Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Gcaleka
5.1.1 Where They Speak
5.1.2 How Many People Speak
7.3 Dialect 2
7.3.1 Where They Speak
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
7.5 Dialect 3
7.5.1 Where They Speak
7.5.2 How Many People Speak
7.7 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
9.3 Speaking Population
9.5 Native Speakers
13.00 million8.20 million
0.13
873
9.5.2 Second Language Speakers
10.3.4 Native Name
10.3.5 Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
10.3.6 French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
xhosa
10.3.7 German Name
Neugriechisch
Xhosa-Sprache
10.4 Pronunciation
10.5 Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
11.2.2 Branch
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
11.3.3 Language Position
12.7.4 Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
12.8 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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