There are more than 300 Turkish words that are used in the Greek language. After all the Greeks were under Ottoman occupation ...

In the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, fictional Greek-American small business owner Gus Portokalos repeatedly issues a bold linguistic challenge: “Give me a word—any word—and I’ll show you how the ...

Romeyka, a relative of the Modern Greek language, has a shrinking population of speakers in Turkey, but a helping hand from scholars and the general public may help it survive. Thousands of languages ...

Although it is officially considered a dialect, Tsakonian is a divergent variety of Greek frequently classified as a separate language, as it is not intelligible to speakers of standard Modern Greek.

As fears about Greek language decline grow, the Pharos Alliance outlines a strategic path forward and asks the community to ...

The history of Modern Greek at Harvard University began in 1828, just a few years after the Greek War of Independence started.

Archive photo shows a sculpture of the ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite on display at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Photo: DPA German speakers probably know more Greek than they think. Here's a run ...

A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...

You may remember a line in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding when the character Gus Portokalos boasts to someone, "Say any word, and I'll tell you how the root of that word is Greek." This assertion ...

The bilingual volume A New History of Greek-Australian Literature by Dr Konstandina Dounis offers the most comprehensive ...