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The official language of Greece is Greek, spoken by 99% of the population. In addition, a number of non-official, minority languages and some Greek dialects are spoken as well. The most common foreign languages learned by Greeks are English, German, French and Italian.
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Varieties of Modern Greek - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Diglossia. Roots and history: Demotic and Katharevousa. Standard Modern Greek. History of modern Greek dialects. Initial dialect differentiation. Historical literary dialects. Modern varieties. Outlying varieties. Tsakonian. Pontic Greek. Cappadocian Greek. Pharasiot Greek. Silliot Greek.
Provenance. The earliest known Greek dialect is Mycenaean Greek, the South/Eastern Greek variety attested from the Linear B tablets produced by the Mycenaean civilization of the Late Bronze Age in the late 2nd millennium BC. The classical distribution of dialects was brought about by the migrations of the early Iron Age [note 1] after the ...
Greek is also the language of the Greek communities outside Greece, as in the United States, Canada, and Australia. There are Greek-speaking enclaves in Calabria (southern Italy) and in Ukraine . Two main varieties of the language may be distinguished: the local dialects , which may differ from one another considerably, and the Standard Modern ...
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 .
WHAT IS A DIALECT? The Greek language, although it remained cohesive from antiquity to the present, has never been uniformly spoken throughout the Greek speaking region, thus forming local dialectal variations. Eventually one of these variations prevailed displacing the others and becoming the standard (“koine”) language of the Hellenophones.
