- Greek language - Wikipedia
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, romanized: elliniká [eliniˈka] ⓘ; Ancient Greek: ἑλληνική, romanized: hellēnikḗ [helːɛːnikɛ́ː]) is an Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family It is native to the territories that have had populations of Greeks since antiquity: Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Italy (in
- Greek Alphabet | The Greek Alphabet, Greek Letter, Greek Alphabets . . .
The greek alphabet has been used since 900 BC to write the Greek Language It is the first writing system using a separate symbol for each vowel and consonant and the oldest alphabetic system that is still in use Greek Letters today are used for writing modern greek and symbols in mathematics and science The Greek alphabet has its origin in the Phoenician alphabet and in turn gave rise to
- Greek language | Definition, Alphabet, Origin, Facts | Britannica
Greek language, Indo-European language spoken primarily in Greece It has a long and well-documented history—the longest of any Indo-European language—spanning 34 centuries There is an Ancient phase, subdivided into a Mycenaean period (texts in syllabic script attested from the 14th to the 13th
- Greek language and alphabets - Omniglot
Greek (ελληνικά) Greek belongs to the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European language family It is spoken mainly in Greece and Cyprus, and also in Australia, Albania, Italy, Ukraine, Turkey, Romania and Hungary It is an official language in Greece and Cyprus, and is recognised as a minority language Albania, Armenia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine [source] In 2012 there
- GREEK Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of GREEK is a native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Greece How to use Greek in a sentence
- Greek – The Languages
Greek nouns are declined for case, number, and gender There are four cases in Modern Greek: nominative, genitive, accusative, and vocative The dative case exists in ancient forms but has been largely phased out in modern usage Verb Conjugation Greek verbs are conjugated based on mood, tense, voice, aspect, person, and number
- Who was Considered Greek in Ancient Greece? - GreekReporter. com
The issue of who was considered Greek in the era of Ancient Greece has been a matter of scholarly debate for centuries
- Ancient Greece - World History Encyclopedia
Map of the Greek City-states c 500 BCE Simeon Netchev (CC BY-NC-ND) Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, known in Greek as Hellas or Ellada, and consisting of a mainland and an archipelago of islands Ancient Greece is the birthplace of Western philosophy (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle), literature (Homer and Hesiod), mathematics (Pythagoras and Euclid), history (Herodotus), drama
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