language in greece?

Question

what language do people in greece speak please show evdience

Answer 1

They speak Greek?

What evidence?

Cheers!

ST

Answer 2

Greek ofcourse. Modern greek. Evidence? Well i 'm in greece and i speak greek and guess what, people around seem to understand me perfectly! Oh, and i understand them as well, lol !! Hmm seriously this evidence request is kind of weird. It's like asking for evidence about the english people speaking modern english, it' s self evident and obvious to those who know the old language. I don't know what evidence u have in mind. Perhaps an ethnological or linguistical study will help u. Here are a few examples of simple everyday modern greek words, u can compare if u know any ancient greek. If u don't, i don't see what kind of linguistical evidence u could evaluate anyway.

ΠΟΛΗ - poli - city
ΕΙΜΑΙ - ime - i am
ΕΧΩ - eho - i have
ΗΜΕΡΑ -imera- day
ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ - anthropos - human
ΖΩΟΝ - zoon - animal
ΘΕΟΣ - theos - god
ΑΚΟΥΩ - akuo - i hear
ΜΑΧΑΙΡΙ - maheri- knife
ΒΙΒΛΙΟ - vivlio -book
ΜΑΛΛΙ - malli- hair
ΜΩΡΟ - moro -baby, infant
ΦΕΥΓΩ - fevgo - i leave
ΓΡΑΦΩ - grapho -i write
ΛΑΧΑΝΟ - lahano -carbbage
ΚΡΕΑΣ - kreas -meat
ΜΙΛΩ - milo -i talk, i speak
ΓΛΩΣΣΑ - glossa -language, tongue
ΕΛΛΑΔΑ - ellatha -Greece
ΓΗ - gi (yi) -earth
ΕΤΟΣ - etos- year
ΧΡΟΝΟΣ - chronos -time
ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ - thalassa - sea
ΗΛΙΟΣ - elios -sun
ΣΕΛΗΝΗ - selini -moon
ΦΩΣ- fos -light
ΝΙΚΗ -nike - winning
ΓΑΜΟΣ - gamos - wedding, marriage
ΦΙΛΟΣ - filos -friend
ΕΧΘΡΟΣ - echtros -enemy
ΚΙΤΡΙΝΟ - kitrino -yellow
ΠΡΑΣΙΝΟ - prasino -green
ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΟ - diadiktio -internet

Answer 3

they-some times- do speak Greek; most of the times youngsters talk greekglish!!!!!
greek language has an old history and it's unique, not stemming from any other! Greek alphabet is the father of the Latin alphabet, as it is! when Aeneas left troy with his family-Trojans being a Greek tribe- went to stay in the Greek island of Evia for about 3 years. then he headed over (to) lazio in Italy. the indigents, Etruscans, writing on a cuneo form had to set some conflicts with the Trojans until the roman people rised out of this mixture, and of course started using the Greek alpha bet. this alphabet remained unchanged, whereas in Greece the alphabet started undergoing modificati ons by the years going by.....until its present form!
so, in short, Greek language affected very much the world's literature!
ciao...john-john.-

Answer 4

They speak modern Demotic Greek. The notion of 'evidence' sounds irrelevant to me. In 1976, Katharevousa, in other words 'pure', or formal, Greek (from 'catharos', or pure) was replaced by Demotic, the common language of the people (from 'demos', or people). Is that what you are looking for?

Answer 5

Greek people speak Greek language. It is one of the most ancient languages and many of the terms in science, literature, etc. are "borrowed" from Greek. For example, "neurology", " phobia", "philology", "morphology", "sintaxis", etc. are all from Greek.
If will serve you as piece of evidence can write you using the Greek alphabet some words, like "αγαπω" ("αgapo", love), " Η Ελλαδα" ("Ι Εlada", Greece), "Με λενε.." ("Me lene..", My name is.. ), Η Αθηνα ("I Athina", Athens )

Hope that helps!

Answer 6

Modern Greek, of course. Just go there and listen is all the proof needed!

Answer 7

Greek Language .
Kali mera means good morning .

Answer 8

Greek of course!

Answer 9

we speak modern Greek but a lot of us can speak English,french or other languages.What did you think we talk?

Answer 10

greek offcourse.
i am greek.