Greek is a language rich in history, literature and philosophy, spoken primarily in Greece and Cyprus.
Greek
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Classification
Indo-European > Greek
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Speakers
13 million
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Script
Greek
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Text direction
Left-to-right
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Official language
Greece, Cyprus
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Also spoken
Albania, Australia
Greek
Greek, together with Chinese, is thought to be one of the oldest written languages still in existence and ancient Greek is still largely legible by modern Greeks. It is traceable, in written form, back to the Linear B script in 1450 BC but has been written in the Greek alphabet since ca. 900 BC.
Whilst it is considered a language isolate (unrelated to any other languages) it has provided the world with the basis of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts, is the root of many words in English, has initiated much of the vocabulary used in science, and more. It is an official language in Greece and Cyprus and is spoken by significant numbers in Albania, Italy and some parts of the Balkans.
Almost every word in English that begins with “ph” comes from Greek and even the English word “alphabet” is taken from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet , “alpha” and “beta”.
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Interesting fact
Greek is a "language isolate", meaning that it has no close links to other languages, and it isn't entirely clear yet how it developed.
