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Greek language

For the Greek language used during particular eras, see Proto-Greek language, Mycenaean
Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek, Medieval Greek, and Modern Greek.
‹ The template Infobox language is being considered for merging. ›
Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, [eliniˈka]; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική,
romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic
branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in
Calabria and in Apulia, precisely in Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the
Balkans, Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has
the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400
years of written records.[10] Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used
for approximately 2,800 years;[11][12] previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems
such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary.[13] The alphabet arose from the Phoenician
script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing
systems.

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