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ellGreek  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Modern Greek ( or , "Neo-Hellenic", historically and colloquially, also known as , "Romaic" or "Roman") refers to the varieties of the Greek language spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present centuries earlier - from the fourth to the fifteenth century AD. During most of the period, the language existed in a situation of diglossia (due in part to the dark ages), with regional spoken dialects existing side by side with learned, archaic written forms. Most notably, during much of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was known in the competing varieties of popular Demotic and learned Katharevousa. Today, standard modern Greek, based on Demotic, is the official language of both Greece and Cyprus. Greek is spoken today by approximately 12-15 million people, mainly in Greece and Cyprus, but also by minority and immigrant communities in many other countries.

Entry terms

  • Greek, Modern (1453-)
  • Modern Greek
  • Modern Greek (1453-)

ISO 639-1 code

  • el

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • gre

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • ell

ISO 639-3 code

  • ell

Notation

  • ell

In other languages

  • grec

    French

  • Grec moderne
  • grec moderne (après 1453)
  • Griechisch

    German

  • Neugriechische Sprache
  • greco

    Italian

  • Lingua greca moderna
  • grego

    Portuguese

  • Grego moderno
  • griego

    Spanish

  • Griego moderno

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ell

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