Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Roman Empire
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Armenian
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
آسف
  
Bye
αντίο (antío)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Greece
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Griko
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Mariupol
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Ukraine
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
ελληνικά
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
arabe
  
German Name
Neugriechisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Arabs
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Hellenic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
el
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ell
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
gre
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
ell
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
ells
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
gree1276
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic