1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.4 Second Language
Roman Empire
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
1.9 Similar To
Armenian
1.10 Derived From
Latin
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
3.2 Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
3.8 Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
3.9 Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
3.10 Bye
αντίο (antío)
3.11 I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
3.12 Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Greece
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,800.00
Rank: 51 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Griko
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Italy
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
50,000.00
Rank: 38 (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Mariupol
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Ukraine
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
Rank: 49 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.18 %
Rank: 46 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million
Rank: 43 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
ελληνικά
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
5.3.5 German Name
Neugriechisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
5.5 Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
6 History
6.1 Origin
1500 BC
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Hellenic
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Greek
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
el
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
ell
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
gre
7.3 ISO 639 3
ell
7.4 ISO 639 6
ells
7.5 Glottocode
gree1276
7.6 Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic