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Greek bhasa ek Indo-European bhasa hae aur Greece (Hellas) aur Cyprus ke official language hae. Isme abhi Greece me baat karaa jaae hae lekin purana time pe iske Asia Minor ke coast ppe aur southern Italy me baat karaa jawat rahaa. Iske ek dafe Western Asia aur Northern Africa me bahut log use karat rahin. Greek me ii bhasa ke Ελληνικά (Helleniká) bolaa jaae ha.
Greeks aapan bhasa ke Greek alphabet me likhe hae. Latin alphabet (jisme English aur dher bhasa me likha jaae hae) Greek alphabet se aais hae. Dunia ke dher alphabets Greek alphabet se aais hae, jaise ki Cyrillic alphabet. Greeks logan Phoenicians se alphabet use kare ke sikhin.
Greek, 3,000 saal se bolaa jaae hae jon ki aur Indo-European bhasa se jaada hae. 15 million se jaada log dunia bhar me Greek me baat kare hae.
↑"The Constitution of Cyprus, App. D., Part 1, Art. 3". Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2011-06-18. states that The official languages of the Republic are Greek and Turkish. However, the official status of Turkish is only nominal in the Greek-dominated Republic of Cyprus; in practice, outside Turkish-dominated Northern Cyprus, Turkish is little used; see A. Arvaniti (2006): Erasure as a a means of maintaining diglossia in Cyprus, San Diego Linguistics Papers 2: 25-38. Page 27.