Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
India
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Armenian
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2452
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
711
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1741
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
nomoskaar
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
subhoraattri
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
subha abeli
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
suprobhaat
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
anugroha kori
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
αντίο (antío)
biḍai
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
Greece
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
2,800.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
Italy
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
50,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Assam
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
253
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.18 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
13.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
assamais
German Name
Neugriechisch
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Assamese people
Origin
1500 BC
7th century A.D
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Assamese
Language Position
7465
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
asm
ISO 639 2/B
gre
asm
ISO 639 3
ell
asm
ISO 639 6
ells
asm
Glottocode
gree1276
assa1263
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
59-AAF-w
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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