Greek · Ελληνικά

About Greek

Language family

Indo-European, Hellenic (its own branch)

Where it's spoken

Greece and Cyprus

Speakers

roughly 13 million speakers

Greek is the sole surviving member of the Hellenic branch of Indo-European and has the longest continuously attested written history of any Indo-European language, spanning roughly 3,400 years from Mycenaean Linear B tablets to today. It has no close living relatives; its nearest kin died out in antiquity. Its alphabet, adapted from Phoenician script around the 9th century BC, is the ancestor of both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.