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)
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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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Armenian
Old German Language
Derived From
Latin
Prakrit 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 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
αντίο (antío)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Not present
Where They Speak
Greece
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How Many People Speak
2,800.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Not present
Where They Speak
Italy
-
How Many People Speak
50,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Not present
Where They Speak
Ukraine
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How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
250
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million14.10 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
sanskrit
German Name
Neugriechisch
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
1500 BC
2000 B.C.
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
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Sanskrit
Language Position
7423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
san
ISO 639 2/B
gre
san
ISO 639 3
ell
san
ISO 639 6
ells
san
Glottocode
gree1276
sans1269
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic