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    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...
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    Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black...
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    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...
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    of Greek proper and other varieties thought to be related but different enough to be separate languages, either among ancient neighboring languages or...
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    languages as working languages). Irish previously had the lower status of "treaty language" before being upgraded to an official and working language...
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  • 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...
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  • Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-regional form of Greek spoken...
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  • Greek language question (Greek: το γλωσσικό ζήτημα, to glossikó zítima) was a dispute about whether the vernacular of the Greek people (Demotic Greek)...
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  • for Regional or Minority Languages and Education, The Turkish language in education in Greece. cf. also P. Trudgill, "Greece and European Turkey: From...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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)...
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  • referred to by speakers simply as Greek (Ελληνικά, Elliniká), refers collectively to the dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era, including...
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    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...
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    The Demographics of Greece refer to the demography of the population that inhabits the Greek peninsula. The population of Greece was estimated by the...
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    Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders...
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    named after Mycenae, one of the major centres of Mycenaean Greece. The tablets long remained undeciphered, and many languages were suggested for them,...
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    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...
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  • Mous, Maarten (1994). Mixed Languages: 15 Case Studies in Language Intertwining. IFOTT. ISBN 9789074698146. "Romano-Greek". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-02-10...
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    languages of the Republic of Cyprus are Greek and Turkish.: art. 3, § 1  The everyday spoken language (vernacular) of Greek Cypriots is Cypriot Greek...
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    languages, such as lule (flower), which has been tentatively linked to Latin lilia and Greek leirion. Lexical distance of Albanian to other languages...
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    minority languages in Europe (which included information on minority languages of Greece), produced by the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages and financed...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • descendants of the Byzantine Greeks of Anatolia. The language originally diverged from Medieval Greek after the late medieval migrations of the Turks from...
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    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...
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  • Demotic Greek or Dimotiki (Greek: Δημοτική Γλώσσα, Dimotikí Glóssa, [ðimotiˈci], lit. 'language of the people') is the standard spoken language of Greece in...
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    Ancient Greece (Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries...
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  • Tsakonian region of the Peloponnese, Greece. Unlike all other extant varieties of Greek, Tsakonian derives from Doric Greek rather than from the Attic-Ionic...
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  • substrate language, whose influence is observable on Ancient Greek and Anatolian languages, is taken by a number of scholars to be an Indo-European language related...
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