Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Roman Empire
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Armenian
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Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
αντίο (antío)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Greece
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Where They Speak
Italy
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Ukraine
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
ελληνικά
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
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French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
chinois
German Name
Neugriechisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Han
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
ells
Not Available
Glottocode
gree1276
sini1245
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
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 γεια σας (geia sas) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). 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 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.