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3 days 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.
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Modern Greek (endonym: Νέα Ελληνικά, Néa Elliniká [ˈne.a...
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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language...
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The grammar of Modern Greek, as spoken in present-day Greece...
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1 day ago · The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [3] [4] It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [5] and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants.
4 days ago · The grammar of Modern Greek, as spoken in present-day Greece and Cyprus, is essentially that of Demotic Greek, but it has also assimilated certain elements of Katharevousa, the archaic, learned variety of Greek imitating Classical Greek forms, which used to be the official language of Greece through much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Aug 27, 2024 · Greek language, Indo-European language spoken primarily in Greece. It has a long and well-documented history—the longest of any Indo-European language—spanning 34 centuries. There is an Ancient phase, subdivided into a Mycenaean period (texts in syllabic script attested from the 14th to the 13th.
Aug 27, 2024 · Greek language - Dialects, Grammar, Alphabet: Modern Greek derives from the Koine via the local varieties that presumably arose during the Byzantine period and is the mother tongue of the inhabitants of Greece and of the Greek population of the island of Cyprus.
Sep 13, 2024 · Greek alphabet, writing system that was developed in Greece about 1000 bce. It is the direct or indirect ancestor of all modern European alphabets.
Sep 10, 2024 · Με τον όρο αρχαία ελληνική γλώσσα ή αρχαία ελληνικά εννοείται μια μορφή της ελληνικής γλώσσας που ομιλείτο κατά τους αρχαϊκούς χρόνους και την κλασική αρχαιότητα. Στον όρο περιλαμβάνεται συνήθως και η μετακλασική εποχή της ελληνιστικής περιόδου.
