Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Bhutan
Second Language
Roman Empire
India
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
India
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Dzongkha Development Commission
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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Armenian
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Latin
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2495
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1730
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Tsip maza
Bye
αντίο (antío)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Laya
Where They Speak
Greece
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
2,800.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Lunana
Where They Speak
Italy
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
50,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Adap
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
254
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million0.17 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
dzongkha
German Name
Neugriechisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Ngalop people
Origin
1500 BC
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Dzongkha
Language Position
7431
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
gre
dzo
ISO 639 3
ell
dzo
ISO 639 6
ells
dzo
Glottocode
gree1276
nucl1307
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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