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Modern Greek
Νέα Ελληνικά
Pronunciation[ˈne.a eliniˈka]
Native toGreece
Cyprus
Albania (Southern Albania)
Turkey (Anatolia)
Italy (Calabria, Salento)
RegionEastern Mediterranean
EthnicityGreeks
Native speakers
13.4 million (2012)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
  • Hellenic
    • Greek
      • Attic–Ionic[citation needed]
        • Modern Greek
Early forms
Proto-Greek
  • Ancient Greek
    • Koine Greek
      • Medieval Greek
Standard forms
  • Standard Modern Greek
Dialects
  • Italiot (Calabrian Greek and Griko)
  • Pontic (including Mariupolitan)
  • Cappadocian
  • Tsakonian
  • Yevanic
  • Maniot
  • Himariote
  • Cypriot
  • Cretan
  • Demotic (base for the St. Mod. Greek)
  • Katharevousa (artificial, base for the St. Mod. Greek)
  • other
Writing system
Greek alphabet
Greek Braille
Official status
Official language in
  • Modern Greek Greece
  • Modern Greek Cyprus
  • Modern Greek European Union
Recognised minority
language in
  • Modern Greek Albania[2]
  • Modern Greek Armenia[3]
  • Modern Greek Hungary[4]
  • Modern Greek Italy[5]
  • Modern Greek Romania[3]
  • Modern Greek South Africa[a][6]
  • Modern Greek Turkey[7]
  • Modern Greek Ukraine[3]
Regulated byCenter for the Greek Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1el
ISO 639-2gre (B)
ell (T)
ISO 639-3ell
Glottologmode1248
Linguaspherepart of 56-AAA-a
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Modern Greek (endonym: Νέα Ελληνικά, Néa Elliniká, [ˈne.a eliniˈka] or Κοινή Νεοελληνική Γλώσσα, Kiní Neoellinikí Glóssa), generally 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 official standardized form of the language sometimes referred to as Standard Modern Greek. The end of the Medieval Greek period and the beginning of Modern Greek is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic features of the modern language arose centuries earlier, having begun around the fourth century AD.

During most of the Modern Greek period, the language existed in a situation of diglossia, with regional spoken dialects existing side by side with learned, more archaic written forms, as with the vernacular and learned varieties (Dimotiki and Katharevousa) that co-existed in Greece throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries.

  1. ^ "Greek". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (18 ed.). 2015.
  2. ^ Jeffries, Ian (2002). Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: A Guide to the Economies in Transition. Routledge. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-415-23671-3. It is difficult to know how many ethnic Greeks there are in Albania. The Greek government, it is typically claimed, says there are around 300,000 ethnic Greeks in Albania, but most Western estimates are around the 200,000 mark ...
  3. ^ a b c "Reservations and Declarations for Treaty No.148 - European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages". Official Website of the Council of Europe. Council of Europe. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Greek in Hungary". Database for the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Public Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research. Archived from the original on 29 April 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  5. ^ "Italy: Cultural Relations and Greek Community". Hellenic Republic: Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 9 July 2013. The Greek Italian community numbers some 30,000 and is concentrated mainly in central Italy. The age-old presence in Italy of Italians of Greek descent – dating back to Byzantine and Classical times – is attested to by the Griko dialect, which is still spoken in the Magna Graecia region. This historically Greek-speaking villages are Condofuri, Galliciano, Roccaforte del Greco, Roghudi, Bova and Bova Marina, which are in the Calabria region (the capital of which is Reggio). The Grecanic region, including Reggio, has a population of some 200,000, while speakers of the Griko dialect number fewer that 1,000 persons.
  6. ^ "Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 - Chapter 1: Founding Provisions". www.gov.za. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  7. ^ Tsitselikis, Konstantinos (2013). "A Surviving Treaty: The Lausanne Minority Protection in Greece and Turkey". In Henrard, Kristin (ed.). The Interrelation between the Right to Identity of Minorities and their Socio-economic Participation. Leiden and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. pp. 294–295. ISBN 9789004244740..


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