Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
33
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Abkhazia
Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Armenian
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Latin
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2462
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
72
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1760
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
амритана
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Амарахь
Bye
αντίο (antío)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
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Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Greece
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
2,800.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Italy
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
50,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Sadz
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Turkey
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
253
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
abkhaze
German Name
Neugriechisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Abkhaz people
Origin
1500 BC
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
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
Abkhaz
Language Position
7428
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
abk
ISO 639 2/B
gre
abk
ISO 639 3
ell
abk
ISO 639 6
ells
abks
Glottocode
gree1276
abkh1244
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative