Countries
Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Japan
Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Palau
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Armenian
Korean Language
Derived From
Latin
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2499
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1714
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
αντίο (antío)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Greece
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
2,800.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Hakata
Where They Speak
Italy
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
50,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Kansai
Where They Speak
Ukraine
kansai
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2531
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %1.90 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million128.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
日本語
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Nihongo
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
japonais
German Name
Neugriechisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Japanese (Yamato)
History
Origin
1500 BC
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Japanese
Language Position
748
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
el
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
gre
jpn
ISO 639 3
ell
jpn
ISO 639 6
ells
jpn
Glottocode
gree1276
nucl1643
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic