Countries
Countries
India
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
India
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Not Available
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Old German Language
Armenian
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Latin
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5224
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
167
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Not present
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Not Available
Greece
How Many People Speak
NA2,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Griko
Where They Speak
Not Available
Italy
How Many People Speak
NA50,000.00
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Not Available
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
025
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
NA0.18 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million13.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Not Available
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
sanskrit
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Sanskrit
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Greeks or Hellenes
History
Origin
2000 B.C.
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Hellenic
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Modern Greek
Language Position
NA74
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
sa
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
ell
ISO 639 2/B
san
gre
ISO 639 3
san
ell
ISO 639 6
Not Available
ells
Glottocode
sans1269
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic