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ISO 639-3 · ellell
Indo-European family
Modern Greek
ελληνικά
Modern Greek is a language of the Hellenic branch (Indo-European), spoken in Cyprus, Albania and Greece. Wikidata counts about 15 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “dialects and varieties of the Greek language spoken in the modern era”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
ell- ISO 639-1
el- Glottocode
mode1248- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- 38.00, 22.00
- Wikipedia
- 73 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
3countries
1scripts
2levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Modern Greek · ελληνικά |
|---|---|
| Also called | Modern Greek language, el |
| All speakers | 15,000,000 |
| Written in | Greek alphabet |
| Official in | Cyprus |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Modern Greek
The branches above Modern Greek, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
