Greek Language

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Greek language

Greek: Official language of Greece.

Number of Greek Speakers: About 13 million people speak Greek.

Greek Speakers: In Greece, Cyprus, Germany, Poland, Russian, Ukraine, Australia, Georgia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.

Greek Alphabet: It uses the alphabet that was in use in the 9th century.

Greek Orthography: It has five vowels. Greek texts are written with accent marks on most words.

Greek Language History: Greek is among the most ancient languages of the world. Most archaic inscriptions were written in the 14th century B.C. Earliest Greek texts were written in syllable scripts.

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Greek Language Enriched by: Slavic languages, Turkish, and Romance languages.

Greek Standardization Efforts: Greek was standardized in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Modern Greek - Major Events: In 1976, Demotiki was adopted as the language of education and administration.

Unique Features of Greek: Classical Greek is not thaught in Greek schools. Modern Greek has a strong accent.

Greek language is included in the Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

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