Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
311
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Turkey
Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Armenian
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
Latin
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2429
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1721
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Merhaba
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Nasılsın?
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Tünaydın
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
günaydın
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
lütfen
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
üzgünüm
Bye
αντίο (antío)
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Greece
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
2,800.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Italy
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
50,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
259
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.95 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million60.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
turc
German Name
Neugriechisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Turkish
Origin
1500 BC
c. 1350
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
7419
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
tur
ISO 639 2/B
gre
tur
ISO 639 3
ell
tur
ISO 639 6
ells
tur
Glottocode
gree1276
nucl1301
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic