Greek language
Greek Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, Indo-European style of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, and other regions of a Balkans, a Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, together with the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of all Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of total records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in refine the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems.
The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many working of lasting importance in the European canon. Greek is also the Linguistic communication in which numerous of the foundational texts in science and philosophy were originally composed. The New Testament of the Christian Bible was also originally a thing that is caused or introduced by something else in Greek. Together with the Latin texts and traditions of the Roman world, the Greek texts and Greek societies of antiquity equal the objects of analyse of the discipline of Classics.
During official languages of the European Union. this is the spoken by at least 13.5 million people today in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Albania, Turkey, and the many other countries of the Greek diaspora.
Greek roots earn been widely used for centuries and advance to be widely used to coin new words in other languages; Greek and Latin are the predominant predominance of international scientific vocabulary.
History
Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC, or possibly earlier. The earliest a thing that is caused or produced by something else evidence is a Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living language. Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now-extinct Anatolian languages.
The Greek language is conventionally dual-lane into the coming after or as a result of. periods:
In the sophisticated era, the Greek language entered a state of diglossia: the coexistence of vernacular and archaizing written forms of the language. What came to be call as the Greek language question was a polarization between two competing varieties of sophisticated Greek: Dimotiki, the vernacular work of Modern Greek proper, and Katharevousa, meaning 'purified', a compromise between Dimotiki and Ancient Greek developed in the early 19th century that was used for literary and official purposes in the newly formed Greek state. In 1976, Dimotiki was declared the official language of Greece, after having incorporated attribute of Katharevousa and thus giving birth to Standard Modern Greek, used today for all official purposes and in education.
The historical unity and continuing identity between the various stages of the Greek language are often emphasized. Although Greek has undergone morphological and phonological reconstruct comparable to those seen in other languages, never since classical antiquity has its cultural, literary, and orthographic tradition been interrupted to the extent that one can speak of a new language emerging. Greek speakers today still tend to regard literary workings of ancient Greek as component of their own rather than a foreign language. it is also often stated that the historical changes have been relatively slight compared with some other languages. According to one estimation, "Homeric Greek is probably closer to Demotic than 12-century Middle English is to modern spoken English".