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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

825
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.40 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %0.18 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.40 million13.00 million
0 873
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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

History

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

Code

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

Welsh and Greek Alphabets

Welsh and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Welsh and Greek. In Welsh Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Welsh and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Welsh and Greek languages. The Welsh phonology consist Welsh vowels and Welsh consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Welsh greetings vs Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Welsh and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

All Welsh and Greek Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Welsh and Greek dialects. Various dialects of Welsh and Greek language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Welsh are spoken in different Welsh Speaking Countries whereas Greek Dialects are spoken in different Greek speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Welsh vs Greek Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Welsh dialects include: Patagonian Welsh, Y Wyndodeg. Greek dialects include: Cappadocian Greek , Griko. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Welsh and Greek Speaking population

Welsh and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Welsh and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Welsh and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Welsh language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Welsh and Greek on Welsh vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Welsh and Greek Language Codes

Welsh and Greek language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Welsh and Greek Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.