Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
Total No. Of Countries
34
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
India
Second Language
Roman Empire
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Israel, Mauritius
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
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.
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
Similar To
Armenian
Konkani Language
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2452
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
716
0
32
👆🏻
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)
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
Bye
αντίο (antío)
बाय (Bāya)
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Maharashtrian Konkani
Where They Speak
Greece
Kokan
How Many People Speak
2,800.002,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Varhadi
Where They Speak
Italy
Vidarbha
How Many People Speak
50,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Khandeshi
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Khandesh
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2542
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million71.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.18 %1.10 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million68.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
13.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
मराठी (marāṭhī)
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
marathe
German Name
Neugriechisch
Marathi
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Marathi people
Origin
1500 BC
10th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Maharashtri Prakrit
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Marathi
Language Position
7417
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
mr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
mar
ISO 639 2/B
gre
mar
ISO 639 3
ell
mar
ISO 639 6
ells
mar
Glottocode
gree1276
mara1378
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
omr
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
-