Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Ethiopia
Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Armenian
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
77
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1731
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Ethiopic
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
Selam
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
i'bakwon
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
aznallehu
Bye
αντίο (antío)
tschao
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Gondar
Where They Speak
Greece
Gondar
How Many People Speak
2,800.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Italy
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
50,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Showa
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
255
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
amharique
German Name
Neugriechisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Amharas
Origin
1500 BC
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Amharic
Language Position
7455
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
amh
ISO 639 2/B
gre
amh
ISO 639 3
ell
amh
ISO 639 6
ells
amh
Glottocode
gree1276
amha1245
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional