Although it is officially considered a dialect, Tsakonian is a divergent variety of Greek frequently classified as a separate language, as it is not intelligible to speakers of standard Modern Greek.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That enduring, cross-border power of the Greek language stood at the heart of this year’s International Greek Language Day ...

A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...

As one of the oldest languages in the world, Greek has been a powerful vessel for the transmission of culture and values in Europe and must be safeguarded, President Nikos Christodoulides said on ...

Romeyka descended from ancient Greek but may die out as it has no written form and is spoken by only a few thousand people An endangered form of Greek that is spoken by only a few thousand people in ...

Originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the Bible is the most sold book in history, it first translation into another language was in Greek ...

The vast majority of pupils in public primary schools who speak Greek as a second language have serious language gaps, it emerged on Wednesday. The results come from the educational research and ...