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
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Armenian
Marathi
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2452
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
716
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1736
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Devanagari
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 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
Namaskar
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
kaso assa?
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Chike
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Maf kor
Bye
αντίο (antío)
Adeus
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Antruz
Where They Speak
Greece
Goa
How Many People Speak
2,800.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Not present
Where They Speak
Italy
-
How Many People Speak
50,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mariupol
Not present
Where They Speak
Ukraine
-
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
251
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.18 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
13.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ελληνικά
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
konkani
German Name
Neugriechisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Konkanis
Origin
1500 BC
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Kokani
Language Position
7423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
el
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
kok
ISO 639 2/B
gre
kok
ISO 639 3
ell
kok
ISO 639 6
ells
kok
Glottocode
gree1276
goan1235
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
No data available
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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