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Thank You

How Are You?

Good Night

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Good Afternoon

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Please

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Bye

I Love You

Excuse Me

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Cyprus, European Union, Greece
3
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Roman Empire
Asia, Europe
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Armenian
Latin
 
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
24
7
17
Arabic, Latin
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
6
44 weeks
 
γεια σας (geia sas)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
αντίο (antío)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
 
Cappadocian Greek
Greece
2,800.00
Griko
Italy
50,000.00
Mariupol
Ukraine
13,000,000.00
25
 
13.00 million
0.18 %
13.00 million
13.00 million
ελληνικά
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
grec moderne (après 1453)
Neugriechisch
[eliniˈka]
Greeks or Hellenes
 
1500 BC
Indo-European Family
Hellenic
-
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Modern Greek
74
Greek Sign Language
Individual
 
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gre
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56-AAA-a
Living
Subject-Verb-Object
Fusional, Synthetic
 
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
5
China, Taiwan
Republic of Brazil
Asia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Japanese and Korean Languages
-
 
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26
24
23
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
6
88 weeks
 
您好 (Nín hǎo)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
请 (Qǐng)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
劳驾 (Láojià)
 
Mandarin
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
960,000,000.00
Wu
China, United States of America
80,000,000.00
Yue
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
60,000,000.00
10
 
1,051.00 million
16.00 %
873.00 million
178.00 million
中文 (zhōngwén)
Zhongwen, Hanyu
chinois
Chinesisch
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Han
 
1250 BC
Sino-Tibetan Family
-
-
No early forms
Standard Chinese
1
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Individual
 
zh
zho
chi
zho
zho
sini1245
79-AAA
Living
Subject-Verb-Object
Analytic, Isolating

Greek vs Chinese Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare Greek vs Chinese speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak Greek or Chinese language.

  • Greek is spoken as a national language in: .
  • Chinese is spoken as a national language in: .

You will also get to know the continents where Greek and Chinese speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of Greek language is and position of Chinese language is . Find all the information about these languages on Greek and Chinese.

Greek and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Greek vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Greek and Chinese language. History of Greek language states that this language originated in whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in . Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Greek vs Chinese.

Greek and Chinese Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Greek and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Greek and Chinese language. Greek word for "Hello" is or Chinese word for "Thank You" is . Find more of such common Greek Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Greek vs Chinese Difficulty

The Greek vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Greek Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Greek and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Greek and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Greek is while to learn Chinese time required is .