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  • the only member of the Greek subfamily of the Indo-European languages.
  • both Ancient and Modern Greek employ the same alphabet, derived from that of the Phoenicians comprising 24 letters.
  • spoken by some 10 million people in Greece, and also by some 600 thousand in Cyprus.
  • Cypriot Greek is reported to be closer to Classical Greek than that spoken in Greece in some vocabulary and grammar, and to have many Arabic and Turkish loan words.




     

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