Countries
Wales
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Wales
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- 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
English Language
Armenian
Derived From
British Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2924
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
77
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2117
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Helô
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Diolch
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Nos da
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Bore da
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Hwyl
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Argentina
Greece
How Many People Speak
38,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Griko
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
Italy
How Many People Speak
700,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Powys
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
700,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
825
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
gallois
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Kymrisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Welsh people
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
9th Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Celtic
Hellenic
Branch
Brythonic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Welsh
Modern Greek
Language Position
3174
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
cy
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
ell
ISO 639 2/B
wel
gre
ISO 639 3
cym
ell
ISO 639 6
cym
ells
Glottocode
wels1247
gree1276
Linguasphere
50-ABA
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic