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Greeklish, a portmanteau of the words Greek and English, also known as Grenglish, Latinoellinika/Λατινοελληνικά or ASCII Greek, is the Greek language written using the Latin script. Unlike standardized systems of Romanization of Greek, as used internationally for purposes such as rendering Greek proper names or place names, or for bibliographic purposes, the term Greeklish mainly refers to informal, ad-hoc practices of writing Greek text in environments where the use of the Greek alphabet is technically impossible or cumbersome, especially in electronic media. Greeklish was commonly used on the Internet when Greek people communicate by forum, e-mail, IRC, instant messaging and occasionally on SMS, mainly because older operating systems did not support non-Latin writing systems, or in a unicode form like UTF-8. Nowadays most Greek language content appears in the Greek alphabet.
Sometimes, the term Greeklish is also used informally for a non-standard language variety used by bilingual speakers of English and Greek, i.e. Greek with heavy macaronic or code-switching admixture of English words, or vice versa.
Greeklish, a portmanteau of the words Greek and English, also known as Grenglish, Latinoellinika/Λατινοελληνικά or ASCII Greek, is the Greek language...
⟨κ⟩ as ⟨k⟩ and the diphthongs ⟨αι, οι, ει, ου⟩ as ⟨ai, oi, ei, ou⟩. "Greeklish" has also spread within Greece itself, owing to the rapid spread of digital...
creation. Zino has no regulations over the use of Greeklish. This has yielded to the extensive use of Greeklish, making it hard to read for people not familiar...
the city up. The video is recorded in two languages; the first was a Greeklish version which aired in Greece, while the English version aired in Sweden...
Catholic missionaries based on the island of Chios. Additionally, the term Greeklish is often used when the Greek language is written in a Latin script in...
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with Persian l33t Yamli, a tool for real time Arabic transliteration Greeklish, a similar phenomenon in Greek Maltese, a related standardized Semitic...
It was translated into Dutch, Japanese, Danish, German, Italian and Greeklish. A second novel, Among These Savage Thoughts, was published in 2006. An...
romanization systems for both Modern and Ancient Greek. ALA-LC Beta Code Greeklish ISO 843 (1997) The Hebrew alphabet is romanized using several standards:...
on 7 March 2007. The CD single includes "Yassou Maria", "Yassou Maria (Greeklish version)", "Enas Apo Mas (Special Holiday Mix)" and a duet with Persian...
online, including blogs and internet forums, and there exists a variant of Greeklish that reflects its distinct phonology. Studies of the phonology of Cypriot...
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