Greek language

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The Greek language has a documented history of 3,400 years, the longest of any single natural language in the Indo-European language family. It is also one of the earliest recorded, with fragmentary records in Mycenaean dating back to the 15th or 14th century BCE, making it the world's oldest recorded living language. Today, it is spoken by approximately 17–25 million people in Greece, Cyprus , and throughout the world.

Greek has been written in the Greek alphabet (the oldest continuously used alphabet, and the first to introduce vowels) since the 9th century BCE. Greek literature has a continuous history of nearly three thousand years.

Greek words have been widely borrowed into the European languages: astronomy, democracy, philosophy, thespian, etc. Moreover, Greek words and word elements continue to be productive as a basis for creating new words: anthropology, photography, isomer, biomechanics, etc. and form, with Latin words, the foundation of international scientific and technical vocabulary.

(Source: Wikipedia)