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Modern Greek
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Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Modern Greek
The Greek language as spoken by the Greek people since the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and as Early Modern Greek up to 1669 (fall of Candia, Crete). It was written using polytonic script until 1982, when this was officially dropped in favour of monotonic.
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Synonyms
post-15th century Greek en Romaic; en New Greek
Meronyms
en Demotic Greek Katharevousa Standard Modern Greek SMG
Translations
Modern Greek
Arabic: ar اللُّغَةُ الْيُونَانِيَّةُ الْحَدِيثَة f
Armenian: hy նոր հունարեն
Belarusian: be навагрэ́чаская мо́ва f, be навагрэ́цкая мо́ва f
Bulgarian: bg новогръ́цки m, bg новогръ́цки ези́к m
Catalan: ca grec modern m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 現代希臘語 Xiàndài Xīlàyǔ
Czech: cs novořečtina f, cs moderní řečtina f
Danish: da nygræsk n
Dutch: nl Nieuwgrieks n
Finnish: fi nykykreikka
French: fr néo-grec, fr grec moderne m
Galician: gl grego moderno m
Georgian: ka თანამედროვე ბერძნული, ka ახალბერძნული
German: de Neugriechisch n; adjective de neugriechisch
Greek: el νέα ελληνικά n-p, el νεοελληνικά n-p, el νέα ελληνική f
Japanese: ja 現代ギリシア語 げんだいぎりしゃご, gendai Girisha-go
Khmer: km ក្រិកទំនើប krəc tumnəəp
Korean: ko 현대 그리스어
Latin: la lingua neograeca, la lingua graeca nova, la lingua graeca vulgaris
Macedonian: mk новогр́чки m, mk новогр́чки јазик m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb nygresk m
Nynorsk: nn nygresk m
Polish: pl język nowogrecki m-in
Portuguese: pt grego moderno m
Romanian: ro neogreacă f, ro greaca modernă f def. form
Russian: ru новогре́ческий m, ru новогре́ческий язы́к m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh новогрчки језик m
Latin: sh novogrčki jezik m
Slovak: sk novogréčtina f, sk moderná gréčtina f
Spanish: es griego moderno m
Swedish: sv nygrekiska c
Ukrainian: uk новогре́цька мо́ва f
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Hy Lạp hiện đại
See also
en Ancient Greek Classical Greek Medieval Greek Byzantine Greek Koine demotic monotonic polytonic
Further reading
en Greek Languages