Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Meghalaya
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
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Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Armenian
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2423
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1714
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
Kumno
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Khublei
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
thia sukh
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
khublei
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sngewbha
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Map
Bye
αντίο (antío)
khublei
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
map a nga
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Greece
-
How Many People Speak
2,800.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Italy
-
How Many People Speak
50,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Ukraine
-
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
255
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million0.84 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
khasi
German Name
Neugriechisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Khasi people
Origin
1500 BC
1200 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
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Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Khasi
Language Position
7440
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
kha
ISO 639 2/B
gre
kha
ISO 639 3
ell
kha
ISO 639 6
ells
kha
Glottocode
gree1276
khas1269
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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