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Greek (Greek ελληνικά, ελληνική γλώσσα) is one of the Indo-European languages. Is the only representative of the so-called Greek group, though some [who?] linguists consider separate languages its separate dialects - цаконский the language of the Peloponnese and Pontic language of Pontus, are on the verge of extinction.

The total number of those who think the new Greek language the native - about 15 million people. Most of them on the nationality of the Greeks, while in Greece they are also widely uses a number of Hellenistic арумынов, мегленорумынов, Roma, Albanians, especially Arnautov, Slavs, and a number of Muslim groups of the North of the country. Modern Greek is at the same time and in the area of its high prevalence in Greece and the Greek part of the Republic of Cyprus (63% of the island). Due to the intensifying economic relations of Greece with the other Balkan countries, as well as mass migration to the country during the past twenty years, of the Greek language owns and a number of population of the neighbouring countries Greece. Especially great is his role as a language of interethnic communication in Albania, as well as in Bulgaria and Romania. As an important language of the Diaspora, the Greek is used among the Greeks of Australia, Canada and the United States. The total number of owning Greek as a foreign ranges from 3 to 5 million people. At the same time for the majority of the Greeks-урумов, living on the territory of the CIS, the native language historically have been the Turkish language or other Turkic dialects.