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...

related to Greek. The two languages share a few unique innovations, ... It is therefore very likely that both languages emerged from a single language, which...

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

The Demographics of Greece refer to the demography of the population that inhabits the country. The population of Greece was estimated by the Hellenic...

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή, Hellēnikḗ; [hellɛːnikɛ́ː]) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around...

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

Proto-Greek language (also known as Proto-Hellenic) is the Indo-European language which was the last common ancestor of all varieties of Greek, including...

Union (EU) has 24 official languages, of which three – English, French and German – were considered "procedural" languages, but this notion was abandoned...

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...

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

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

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...

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

shores of the Black Sea, northeastern Anatolia, and the Eastern Turkish and Caucasus region. An endangered Greek language variety, Pontic Greek is spoken...

Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the...

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

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

pre-Greek substrate (or substratum) consists of the unknown pre-Greek language or languages (either Pre-Indo-European or other Indo-European languages) spoken...

subgroup of Sarakatsani. Macedonia is also home to an array of non-Greek languages. Slavic languages are the most prevalent minority languages in the region...

Testament was written in a form of Koine Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the conquests of Alexander the Great (335–323...

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...

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...

Katharevousa (Greek: Καθαρεύουσα, pronounced [kaθaˈrevusa], literally "purifying [language]") is a conservative form of the Modern Greek language conceived...

European languages, including Modern Greek. Of these, the neologisms are by far the most numerous. Since the living Greek and English languages were not...

originally written in Greek. The Greeks speak the Greek language, which forms its own unique branch within the Indo-European family of languages, the Hellenic...

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...

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

This is a list of modern Greek poets (years link to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article). Andreas Kalvos (1792–1869) Dionysios Solomos (1798–1857)...

Indo-European languages around the 3rd millennium BCE (or possibly before), it is first attested in the Bronze Age as Mycenaean Greek. During the Archaic...

Tsakonian region of the Peloponnese, Greece. Unlike all other extant varieties of Greek, Tsakonian derives from Doric Greek rather than from the Attic–Ionic...