Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Thailand
Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Armenian
Lao Language
Derived From
Latin
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2444
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
732
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1744
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Thai
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
αντίο (antío)
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Isan
Where They Speak
Greece
Isan
How Many People Speak
2,800.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Italy
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
50,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
Ukraine
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
259
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.85 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
13.00 million20.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
13.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
thaï
German Name
Neugriechisch
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Origin
1500 BC
1283 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
Tai
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Thai
Language Position
7447
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
tha
ISO 639 2/B
gre
tha
ISO 639 3
ell
tha
ISO 639 6
ells
tha
Glottocode
gree1276
thai1261
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating