19 Facts About Latin Greek

Latin Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Latin Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world.

Latin Greek is the language in which many of the foundational texts in science and philosophy were originally composed.

Greek roots have been widely used for centuries and continue to be widely used to coin new words in other languages; Greek and Latin are the predominant sources of international scientific vocabulary.

Latin Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC, or possibly earlier.

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In 1976, Dimotiki was declared the official language of Greece, after having incorporated features of Katharevousa and thus giving birth to Standard Modern Latin Greek, used today for all official purposes and in education.

Latin Greek is spoken worldwide by the sizable Latin Greek diaspora which has notable communities in the United States, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and throughout the European Union, especially in Germany.

Latin Greek is recognized as a minority language in Albania and used co-officially in some of the municipalities in Gjirokaster and Sarande.

The division into conventional periods is, as with all such periodizations, relatively arbitrary, especially because, in all periods, Ancient Latin Greek has enjoyed high prestige, and the literate borrowed heavily from it.

Across its history, the syllabic structure of Latin Greek has varied little: Latin Greek shows a mixed syllable structure, permitting complex syllabic onsets but very restricted codas.

Inflectional categories of the Latin Greek verb have likewise remained largely the same over the course of the language's history but with significant changes in the number of distinctions within each category and their morphological expression.

Many aspects of the syntax of Latin Greek have remained constant: verbs agree with their subject only, the use of the surviving cases is largely intact, articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify and relative pronouns are clause-initial.

Ancient Latin Greek made great use of participial constructions and of constructions involving the infinitive, and the modern variety lacks the infinitive entirely and uses participles more restrictively.

Ancient Latin Greek tended to be verb-final, but neutral word order in the modern language is VSO or SVO.

Latin Greek words have been widely borrowed into other languages, including English.

Latin Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family.

Latin Greek has been written in the Latin Greek alphabet since approximately the 9th century BC.

The lower-case Latin Greek letters were developed much later by medieval scribes to permit a faster, more convenient cursive writing style with the use of ink and quill.

Since then, Latin Greek has been written mostly in the simplified monotonic orthography, which employs only the acute accent and the diaeresis.