Countries
Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Nepal
Second Language
Roman Empire
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Armenian
Hindi
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2448
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1736
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Devanagari
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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Greetings
Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
कृपया
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
αντίο (antío)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Doteli
Where They Speak
Greece
Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,800.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Italy
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
50,000.00NA
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Nepal
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2512
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.25 %
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NA5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
népalais
German Name
Neugriechisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
History
Origin
1500 BC
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Nepali
Language Position
7459
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
el
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
nep
ISO 639 2/B
gre
nep
ISO 639 3
ell
npi
ISO 639 6
ells
Not Available
Glottocode
gree1276
nepa1254
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative