1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Bulgaria, European Union
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Bulgaria
1.4 Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
1.9 Similar To
Armenian
Macedonian language
1.10 Derived From
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)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
3.2 Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
3.3 How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Как си? (Kak si?)
3.4 Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
3.5 Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
3.7 Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Моля (Molja)
3.9 Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
3.10 Bye
αντίο (antío)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
3.11 I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Обичам те (Običam te)
3.12 Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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 million7.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million7.80 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ελληνικά
български (bãlgarski)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Balgarski
5.3.4 French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
bulgare
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European 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 Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Standard Bulgarian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
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
Not Available