Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Lithuania
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
Poland
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Armenian
Latvian
Derived From
Latin
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2432
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1720
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
Sveiki
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Ačiū
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Labanakt
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Laba diena
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Labas rytas
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Prašom
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
atsiprašau
Bye
αντίο (antío)
Ate
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Greece
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
2,800.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Italy
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
50,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Curonian
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2510
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.18 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
13.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ελληνικά
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
lituanien
German Name
Neugriechisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Lithuanians
Origin
1500 BC
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Lithuanian
Language Position
7444
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
lit
ISO 639 2/B
gre
lit
ISO 639 3
ell
lit
ISO 639 6
ells
lit
Glottocode
gree1276
lith1251
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic