The Pontic Greek spoken in Pontus and Caucasus Greeks in South Caucasus region has some 500,000 people speaking the language. The Maniot dialect belongs to the local area of Mani. Outside Crete, Athens, and the Ottoman-era Cretan Greek Muslims also speak the dialect.
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However, they rarely use it in written forms though it differs less from the Standard Greek. The Cretan Greek is the dialect of Crete with a population of about 500,000 people speaking the language. Most of the Cappadocians shifted to Standard Modern Greek. The Cappadocian Greek has very few speakers and is facing extinction. The Tsakonian dialect descends from the ancient Doric dialect. Today, the Tsakonian dialect is spoken by 1,200 people in the Tsakonian regions of Peloponnese where it splits into Northern, Southern, and Propontis dialects. Modern Greek dialects except for Tsakonian language hail from a common supra region, Attic Greek, spoken in late antiquity. The syntax, morphology and phonology of the Greek language show how it has conserved its integrity, and the innovative tendencies developed across the entire attestation of the tongue from the ancient forms to the modern lingual style.ĭifferent non-official dialects of Hellenic languages exist as well. The language has a 5-vowel system and a combined 24 letters of the alphabet. Today, the language exists as a diglossia form with the native system and archaizing written forms. The Modern Greek stems from Medieval Greek and has many regional dialects. The Standard Modern Greek is officially used as the standard language form in the country. Today, more than 15-25 million people speak Greek and in Greece 99.5% of the population converse in the language.
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Greek is also one of the oldest Indo-European languages in the world having survived more than 34 centuries, and it is the official language alongside Turkish in Cyprus.
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Today, it exists as Modern Greek with many dialects in the different regions of the country. Greek is also the de facto provincial language in Albanian. English is the dominant foreign language spoken in the business world of Greece and also taught in the schools. Greek, the official and primary language of Greece is spoken by the majority of the country's population.