Γειά σου!
say it: “YAH soo”
Greek
in its own words: ελληνικά
- Speakers
- 13 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Greek
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Italy, The Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Türkiye, Ukraine
- Script
- Greek
- Official language
- Cyprus, Greece
Fun fact
Greek has been attested in writing for more than three thousand years (Linear B). Many international words come from Greek: school, telephone, democracy.