GREEK LANGUAGE

Which country speak the Greek language? it is spoken essentially in the states of Greece and Cyprus, enlisted among the official languages of European Union and minority idiom still used in the Euroepan states of Albania, Hungary, Romania and even in Armenia, Turkey and Ukraine. Greek is included in the wade families of the indoeuropeans language families (P.I.E.) spreaded all around Europe and part of the Kentum group P.I.E. european languages, using itw own ancient Greek alphabet of 24 letters inherited also by the Armenian, eastern and southern Slavic and Danubians languages.

Greek is highly interesting for the history of European integration and the cultural tradition of entire Europe: its first attested written idioms was the Minonian alphabet called "Linear A" used in Creete island around 2000 BC developed from the Phoenician language, followed by the renowed "Linear B" alphabet used by the Myceanians tribe who centuries after influenced all the Greeks people, who spoke their own local dialet. When Alexander "the great" united all of them and started the ephic conquest of the Persian Empire, he founded a new language called Koyne (Κοινή) that became the official language of all Greeks and Macedonians until 330 AD. When it was substituited by the Medieval Greek under the Byzantine Empire, mixed with the Latin alphabet and became basic for the Coptic, the Glagolitic, the Cyrillic and the Runic alphabets, spreaded in south-east Europe, in south Italy and Anatolia. When in 1453 AD Constantinople was conquered by the Turks, the ancient Greek remained in use among common people to be restored as official language of the indipendent Kingdom of Greece in 1830 AD.

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