Home
Languagevs


About Greek Language



Countries

Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries
3 12

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
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
24 6

Phonology

How Many Vowels
7 4

How Many Consonants
17 7

Scripts
Arabic, Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 88

Dialect 2
Griko

Where They Speak
Italy

How Many People Speak
50,000.00 84

Dialect 3
Mariupol

Where They Speak
Ukraine

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00 28

Total No. Of Dialects
25 21

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
13.00 million 49

Speaking Population
0.18 % 49

Native Speakers
13.00 million 43

Second Language Speakers
13.00 million 37

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
74 62

Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
el

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

Summary >>
<< Code

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.

Most Spoken Languages

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.

Compare Most Spoken Languages

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.

Most Spoken Languages

» More Most Spoken Languages

Compare Most Spoken Languages

» More Compare Most Spoken Languages