人权宣言 - Greek (Ellinika')

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Greek (Ellinika')

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总发言人数

12,258,540

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Home speakers: Greece .

Also spoken in Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bulgaria, Canada, Congo, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, France, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Russia (Europe), Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey (Europe), Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA.

背景

It belongs to the Indo-European family, native to the southern Balkan peninsula , the language of the Greeks. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical Ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of the Christian Bible. In its modern form, it is the official language of Greece and Cyprus, and spoken by a total of approximately 20 million people (first language for ca. 15 million), including minority and emigrant communities in numerous parts of the world. It is written in the Greek alphabet. It's the official language of Greece.