The history of the Greek language begins thousands of years ago around 3000 BC. The first writings date back to about 1450 and 1350 BC. making the Greek language the oldest in the world.
Until we came to the present form of language there were several phases of its existence.
Mycenaean Greek
Ancient Greek
Koine Greek
Medieval Greek
Modern Greek
they are the Modern Greek with some dialects such as:
Katharevousa
Pontic Greek
Cappadocian Greek
Rumeíka
Tsakonian
According to statistics (2012), about 13.2 million speaks the Greek language. It is an official language in Greece and Cyprus. There are too many Greeks abroad, in Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy and the United States where they speak the Greek language.
Τhey feels blessed that even with the passage of time and the change of generations, they learn their children the Greek language.
This alphabet is based on inscriptions from Crete dated to about 800 BC. Greek was written mainly from right to left in horizontal lines at this time. It is uncertain what names were given to the letters, and some letters had more than one form.
The Modern Greek alphabet consists of 24 letters. It does not contain any Latin character and is totally different from any other language in the world.
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