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Name:
Greek
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Greek (Modern); Modern Greek; Grec; Graecae; Romaic; Neo-Hellenic; Ellinika; Greco; Neu-Griechisch
Spoken in:
Ukraine, USA, Malawi, Sweden, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, South Africa, Congo, Australia, Paraguay, France, Georgia, Poland, Germany, Jordan, Armenia, Bahamas, Kazakhstan, Romania, United Kingdom, Canada, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hungary, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Turkey, Austria, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt
Number of speakers:
10,700,000 in Greece (2002 census). Population total all countries: 13,084,490
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
42000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
20000
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
ell
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Middle Greek; Byzantine Greek; Medieval Greek (qgk)
Child Language:
Pontic; Pontic Greek (pnt)
Child Dialect Groups:
Southern Greek (ell-sou)
Northern Greek (ell-nor)
Child Dialects:
Cargese (ell-car)
Katharevousa (ell-kat)
Salento (ell-sal)
Dimotiki; Demotic Greek (ell-dim)
Aspromonte (ell-asp)
Cypriot Greek; Greek (Cypriot); Cypriot (ell-cyp)
Saracatsan; Saracastan (ell-sar)
Mariupol Greek; Tavro-Rumeic; Crimeo-Rumeic (ell-mar)
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
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