Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC, [18] or possibly earlier. [19] The earliest written evidence is a Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, [20] making Greek the …

Dec 20, 2024 · 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.

Feb 1, 2025 · ancient Greek civilization, the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended about 1200 bce, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 bce. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific achievements that formed a …

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.

Feb 2, 2025 · Greek Language is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Credit: Greek Reporter. Τhe Greek language holds a special place amongst the over seven thousand languages of the world of which, it must be noted, only twenty-three are actually utilized by over half of the world population.

Feb 2, 2025 · Greece, the southernmost of the countries of the Balkan Peninsula. It lies at the juncture of Europe, Asia, and Africa and is heir to the heritages of Classical Greece, the Byzantine Empire, and nearly four centuries of Ottoman Turkish rule. One-fifth of Greece’s area is made up of the Greek islands.

The Greek language, also referred to as the Grecian language, is an Indo-European language. It is the official language of Greece (Hellas) and Cyprus . It was first spoken in Greece and was also once spoken along the coast of Asia Minor (now a part of Turkey) and in southern Italy .

Ancient Greek and its Legacy By Rebecka Lindau, Chief Librarian, Center for Hellenic Studies. All Americans know some ancient Greek as more than 5 percent of English words derive directly from the Greek language, timely words such as democracy, tyranny, plutocracy, oligarchy, autocrat, narcissist, and pandemic; many more words come to us from Greek via Latin and …