1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
European Union, Malta
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Malta
1.4 Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
National Council for the Maltese 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
1.9 Similar To
Armenian
Western Arabic Dialects
1.10 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
1.2.1 How Many Consonants
2.3 Scripts
2.4 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.5 Hard to Learn
2.5.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
Ħello
3.2 Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Grazzi
3.3 How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Kif int?
3.4 Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
3.5 Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
3.6 Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
3.7 Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
L-għodwa t-tajba
3.8 Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Jekk jogħġbok
3.9 Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Skużani!
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Inħobbok ħafna
3.12 Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Skużi!
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.5 Dialect 2
4.5.1 Where They Speak
4.5.2 How Many People Speak
4.6 Dialect 3
4.6.1 Where They Speak
4.6.2 How Many People Speak
6.2 Total No. Of Dialects
7 How Many People Speak
7.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million0.52 million
0.13
1200
7.3 Speaking Population
8.2 Native Speakers
13.00 million0.52 million
0.13
873
8.3.1 Second Language Speakers
8.4.1 Native Name
8.4.2 Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Malti
8.4.3 French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
maltais
8.4.4 German Name
8.5 Pronunciation
8.6 Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Maltese
9 History
9.1 Origin
9.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
9.2.1 Subgroup
9.2.2 Branch
Not Available
North Abric
9.3 Language Forms
9.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
No early forms
9.3.2 Standard Forms
9.3.3 Language Position
9.3.5 Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
9.4 Scope
10 Code
10.1 ISO 639 1
10.2 ISO 639 2
10.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
10.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
10.3 ISO 639 3
10.4 ISO 639 6
10.5 Glottocode
10.6 Linguasphere
10.7 Types of Language
10.7.1 Language Type
10.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
10.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic