Greek and Chinese History

Greek

Chinese

Chinese and Greek Language History

History

Origin

1500 BC

1250 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Hellenic

Not Available

Branch

Not Available

Language Forms

Early Forms

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

No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Greek

Standard Chinese

Language Position

99+

Signed Forms

Greek Sign Language

Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))

Scope

Individual

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Early forms of Greek and Chinese

The Early forms of Greek and Chinese explains the evolution of Greek and Chinese languages which is under Greek and Chinese history. The early forms give us the early stages of the language. By studying Greek and Chinese history we will understand how the Greek and Chinese languages were evolved and modified according to time.

Early forms of Greek: Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek.
Early forms of Chinese: No early forms.
Standard forms of Greek: Modern Greek.
Standard forms of Chinese: Standard Chinese.
Signed forms of Greek: Greek Sign Language
Signed forms of Chinese: Greek Sign Language

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Greek and Chinese Language Family

In Greek and Chinese history, you will get to know about Greek and Chinese language family. Go through all languages which belong to Afro-Asiatic Languages and Niger-Congo Languages and explore more about them. A language family is defined as group of languages that are derived from common ancestors. Greek is a part of Indo-European Family while Chinese is a part of Sino-Tibetan Family. The subgroup and branch of Greek is Hellenic and Not Available resp. The subgroup and branch of Chinese is Not Available and Not Available resp. Language families are subdivided into smaller units. Scripts used by these languages also depend upon their family. Check out the scripts used in Greek and Chinese language on Greek vs Chinese alphabets. You can also find which is the most widely spoken language in the world on Most Spoken Languages.

Greek vs Chinese Language Rank

It’s really interesting to find out Greek vs Chinese language rank. Greek and Chinese history gives you Greek and Chinese language rank. The Greek language rank is 74. And Chinese language rank is 1. The language which is at the higher position has maximum number of native speakers. If you want to know the number of native speakers then go to Greek vs Chinese.