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 Messeniathat dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, making Greek

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Greek is spoken today by at least 13 million people, principally in Greece and Cyprus along with a sizable Greek-speaking minority in Albanianear the Greek-Albanian border. A significant percentage of Albania's population has some basic knowledge of

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The phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabularyof the language show both conservative and innovative tendencies across the entire

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Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. The ancient language most closely related to it may be ancient Macedonian, which most scholars suggest may have been a dialect of Greekitself, but it is poorly attested and it is difficult to conclude.

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Linear B
Linear B, attested as early as the late 15th century BC, was the first script used to write Greek. It is basically

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The Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Greek:
'Ολοι οι άνθρωποι γεννιούνται ελεύθεροι και ίσοι στην αξιοπρέπεια

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• Modern Greek
• Medieval Greek
• Ancient Greek

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