Languages of Greece information

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...

Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black...

of Greek proper and other varieties thought to be related but different enough to be separate languages, either among ancient neighboring languages or...

Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly...

Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-regional form of Greek spoken...

languages as working languages). Irish previously had the lower status of "treaty language" before being upgraded to an official and working language...

Jewish languages, in that there is no knowledge of any language fragmentation ever taking place. At the start of World War II Northern Greece alone had...

Medieval Greek (also known as Middle Greek, Byzantine Greek, or Romaic) is the stage of the Greek language between the end of classical antiquity in the...

Greek language question (Greek: το γλωσσικό ζήτημα, to glossikó zítima) was a dispute about whether the vernacular of the Greek people (Demotic Greek)...

of the Pontus today, mostly by Pontic Greek Muslims in the eastern districts of Trabzon Province. Pontic Greek is one of the languages of the Greek (Hellenic)...

for Regional or Minority Languages and Education, The Turkish language in education in Greece. cf. also P. Trudgill, "Greece and European Turkey: From...

named after Mycenae, one of the major centres of Mycenaean Greece. The tablets long remained undeciphered, and many languages were suggested for them,...

referred to by speakers simply as Greek (Ελληνικά, Elliniká), refers collectively to the dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era, including...

The Demographics of Greece refer to the demography of the population that inhabits the Greek peninsula. The population of Greece was estimated by the...

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders...

languages of the Republic of Cyprus are Greek and Turkish.: art. 3, § 1  The everyday spoken language (vernacular) of Greek Cypriots is Cypriot Greek...

with the spoken languages, dialects exist in each country. Although there is no official data, users of the Greek Sign Language in Greece are estimated...

250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018...

name of Greece differs in Greek compared with the names used for the country in other languages and cultures, just like the names of the Greeks. The ancient...

languages, such as lule (flower), which has been tentatively linked to Latin lilia and Greek leirion. Lexical distance of Albanian to other languages...

Joseph: "Ancient Greek". In: J. Garry et al. (eds.): Facts about the world's major languages: an encyclopedia of the world's major languages, past and present...

descendants of the Byzantine Greeks of Anatolia. The language originally diverged from Medieval Greek after the late medieval migrations of the Turks from...

Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic...

"Minority Languages in Northern Greece", in which the existence of a "Macedonian language" in Greece is mentioned. The description of this language is simplistic...

Demotic Greek or Dimotiki (Greek: Δημοτική Γλώσσα, Dimotikí Glóssa, [ðimotiˈci], lit. 'language of the people') is the standard spoken language of Greece in...

minority languages in Europe (which included information on minority languages of Greece), produced by the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages and financed...

Ancient Greece (Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries...