About Greek Language | Greek | Alphabets in Greek

Countries

Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

Roman Empire

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.

Similar To

Armenian

Derived From

Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 6 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 7 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Arabic, Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

αντίο (antío)

I Love You

Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

Greece

How Many People Speak

2,800.00

Rank: 88 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Griko

Where They Speak

Italy

How Many People Speak

50,000.00

Rank: 84 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Mariupol

Where They Speak

Ukraine

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00

Rank: 28 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 21 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

13.00 million

Rank: 49 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.18 %

Rank: 49 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

13.00 million

Rank: 43 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

13.00 million

Rank: 37 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Hellenic

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

Modern Greek

Language Position

Rank: 62 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Greek Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ell

ISO 639 2/B

gre

ISO 639 3

ell

ISO 639 6

ells

Glottocode

gree1276

Linguasphere

56-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Greek

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Greek Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Greek Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Greek. Greek phonology gives Greek vowels and Greek consonants. There are 7 vowels and 17 consonants in Greek language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Greek is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Greek language is given in detail in this section.

All Greek countries

Want to explore all Greek countries? About Greek language serves you with all Greek Speaking Countries. Countries that use Greek as official language are called as Greek countries.

Countries that use Greek as their National Language are: Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Greek as second language are: Roman Empire.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Greek greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Greek Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Greek language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Greek language.Learn Greek greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank you: ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Good Morning: καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Good Evening: καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon: Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

All Greek Language Codes

Get to know all Greek language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Greek Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.