1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Somalia
1.4 Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Middle East
1.6 Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Yemen
1.7 Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
1.9 Similar To
Armenian
Afar and Oromo 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
Arabic, Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
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)
Hello
3.2 Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Sidee tahay ?
3.4 Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Habeenka Good
3.5 Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Evening Good
3.6 Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Fadlan
3.9 Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
iga raali ahow
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Northern Somali
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Greece
Gabon, Standard Somali
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Italy
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1.4 Dialect 3
1.4.1 Where They Speak
1.4.2 How Many People Speak
1.5 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
2.2 Speaking Population
2.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million8.00 million
0.13
873
2.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.3.2 Native Name
2.3.3 Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
2.3.4 French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
somali
2.3.5 German Name
2.4 Pronunciation
2.5 Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Somalis
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
3.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
No early forms
3.3.2 Standard Forms
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.4 Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
No data available
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available