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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Armenian
Kannada Language
Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2451
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
716
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1735
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
Namaskara
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
yedde kaande
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Daya maltadu
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
αντίο (antío)
Barpe
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Greece
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
2,800.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Jain
Where They Speak
Italy
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
50,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Girijan
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
254
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million1.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
Tulu
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
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German Name
Neugriechisch
Tulu
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Tuluva
Origin
1500 BC
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Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian 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
Tulu
Language Position
7423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
gre
tul
ISO 639 3
ell
tcy
ISO 639 6
ells
tcy
Glottocode
gree1276
tulu1258
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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