Category:Greek (Language)

This language is also known as Ellinika, Grec, Greco, Graecae, Romaic, and Neo-Hellenic.

This language is spoken by 9,860,000 people in Greece. World-wide, Greek is spoken by 12,259,000 people in Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bulgaria, Canada, Congo, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Malawi, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Russia (Europe), Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey (Europe), Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the U.S.A.

All the New Testament books were written in Greek. Greek was the ligua franca of the Roman Empire (not Latin). The New Testament is sometimes called the Greek Testament, Greek Scriptures, or The New Covenant (the literal translation of the original Greek name.) Greek is also used as a liturgical languaage in the Melkite Catholic Church, the Italo-Greek Catholic Church and various other Catholic Churches that use the Rite of Constantinople. Even in the Latin liturgies, the Kyrie is Greek.

The 24 letters of the modern Greek alphabet are named, in order, as follows: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega. The 24 capital letters (upper-case symbols) are: Α, Β, Γ, Δ, Ε, Ζ, Η, Θ, Ι, Κ, Λ, Μ, Ν, Ξ, Ο, Π, Ρ, Σ, Τ, Υ, Φ, Χ, Ψ, Ω. The 24 minuscule symbols (lower-case letters) of the Greek alphabet (in order) are: α, β, γ, δ, ε, ζ, η, θ, ι, κ, λ, μ, ν, ξ, ο, π, ρ, σ (ς), τ, υ, φ, χ, ψ, ω.

See Also

Greek Rosary Prayers