Greek may refer to: . Greece. Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: . Greeks, an ethnic group; Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family . Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek; Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC)

Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC, or possibly earlier. The earliest written 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 …