Hellenic languages - Wikipedia
Language tree. Classification. Hellenic constitutes a branch of the Indo-European language family. The ancient languages that might have been most closely related to it, ancient Macedonian [30][31] (either an ancient Greek dialect or a separate Hellenic language) and Phrygian, [32] are not documented well enough to permit detailed comparison.
Greek language - Wikipedia
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. The ancient language most closely related to it may be ancient Macedonian, which, by most accounts, was a distinct dialect of Greek itself.
Indo-European languages - Wikipedia
The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or sub-families, of which there are eight groups with languages still alive today: Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic; another nine subdivisions are now extinct.
The History of the Greek Language Throughout Time
2024年2月9日 · Among the world’s 2,700 languages, Greek stands out for its centuries-long, unique and continuous path. If we also consider the influence it exerted—both in terms of formation and content—on European as well as other languages, Greek is, without exaggeration, perhaps the most important language in the world.
Greece Languages - FamilySearch
2024年3月21日 · There are several forms of the Greek language: Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek, and Byzantine Greek are not seen in genealogy. Official Greek, Katharevusa (kathareuousa), was used in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries until the late 1960s.
Discover the 10 Branches of the Indo-European Language Family
2024年10月24日 · Greek languages. The Greek branch of the Indo-European language family is somewhat unique, in that modern-day Greek is the only living language and its ancestors, including Mycenaean Greek and Attic Greek, are the only extinct languages. The earliest Greek writing comes from the Linear B tablets from around 1400 B.C.E, and Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” which were written a few ...
Greek language | Definition, Alphabet, Origin, & Facts - Britannica
2024年10月30日 · Greek language, Indo-European language spoken primarily in Greece. It has a long and well-documented history—the longest of any Indo-European language—spanning 34 centuries. There is an Ancient phase, subdivided into a Mycenaean period (texts in syllabic script attested from the 14th to the 13th.
Indo-European languages - Proto-IE, Family Tree, Subgroups
Greek language. Slavic languages. Celtic languages. Baltic languages. By comparing the recorded Indo-European languages, especially the most ancient ones, much of the parent language from which they are descended can be reconstructed.
Greek Language - Wikiversity
2020年12月3日 · Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά [eliniˈka], elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα [eliniˈci ˈɣlosa], ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean.
BBC - Languages
Like a golden apple of ancient mythology, Greek is the only language on its branch of the Indo-European family tree. Its closest relations are the Indo-Iranian languages, and Armenian.