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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

refugees). Greece was inhabited as early as the Paleolithic period. The Greek language ultimately dominated the peninsula and Greece's mosaic of small city-states...

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...

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

For list of newspapers in Greece and Cyprus, please see their separate articles: List of newspapers in Greece List of newspapers in Cyprus The following...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...