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1 day ago · In its modern form, Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. It is spoken by at least 13.5 million people today in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Albania, Turkey, and the many other countries of the Greek diaspora .
- 13.5 million (2012)
Languages are like species. Some "die out" because they evolve into new forms. The three you mentioned all did that. Latin became the Romance languages. Greek is Greek. Modern Aramaic exists in parts of Iraq and Iran. Others like Cornish ("Kernewek") were driven to extinction (~250 years ago for Cornish), for several reasons: loss of "habitat ...
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3 days ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
1 day ago · The Cyrillic script (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k / sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic , Turkic , Mongolic , Uralic , Caucasian and Iranic -speaking countries in Southeastern Europe , Eastern Europe , the Caucasus ...
- left-to-right
- Old Permic script
- Cyrillic
- See Languages using Cyrillic
5 days ago · Romanian language, Romance language spoken mainly in Romania and Moldova. Its main dialects are Dacoromanian, the basis of the standard language, spoken in Romania and Moldova; Aromanian, spoken in Greece, North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, and Serbia; and nearly extinct Meglenoromanian and Istroromanian.
5 days ago · Tamil // 86.6 million. Though Telugu is the most spoken Dravidian language, Tamil holds the distinction of being the oldest in the family. 20. Yue Chinese // 86.6 million. Cantonese is sometimes ...
5 days ago · The article does not provide information about the forgotten Hellenic languages. Why is Greek not a dead language? Greek is not a dead language because it has been alive and continuously evolving since 1800-1700 BCE. Over time, the Greek language has changed and taken different forms, but it has maintained a remarkable continuity throughout ...
