Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Armenian
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2427
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1721
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
Halo
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
piye kabare?
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Sugeng énjing
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
matur nuwun
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
αντίο (antío)
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Greece
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
2,800.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Italy
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
50,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Arekan
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
2516
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %1.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million76.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
javanais
German Name
Neugriechisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
1500 BC
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Javanese
Language Position
7411
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
jav
ISO 639 2/B
gre
jav
ISO 639 3
ell
jav
ISO 639 6
ells
jav
Glottocode
gree1276
java1253
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative