Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
China
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
China
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
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Armenian
Uzbek Language
Derived From
Latin
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2436
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
79
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1727
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
rakhmat
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
birdam
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
kachurung
Bye
αντίο (antío)
Khayr khosh
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Turpan
Where They Speak
Greece
China
How Many People Speak
2,800.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Griko
Hotan
Where They Speak
Italy
China
How Many People Speak
50,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mariupol
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Ukraine
China
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
257
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.18 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
13.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ελληνικά
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
ouïgour
German Name
Neugriechisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Uyghur
Origin
1500 BC
11
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Uyghur
Language Position
7498
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
el
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
uig
ISO 639 2/B
gre
uig
ISO 639 3
ell
uig
ISO 639 6
ells
uig
Glottocode
gree1276
uigh1240
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
-