What Do people in Greece speak?

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Kraljica Katica

GREEK!!!!

Here is a list of all the other languages that are spoken as well....

Also includes Armenian (20,000), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (2,000), Balkan Gagauz Turkish, English (8,000), Ladino (2,000), Northern Kurdish (20,000), Russian, Serbian, Urum, Western Farsi (10,000), Arabic (28,000).

This is out of a total population of 10 and a half million.

OF COURSE IN TOURIST AREAS IT IS EASY TO GET BY WITH ENGLISH.

Jason

Right now they speak Greek, but at one point in history it was Latin.

gina

Greek of course.The Greeks are the second largest learners of foreign languages in Europe so at least English is spoken by many-many people.

disk_tel

greek

Greek
In schools students learn (except modern and ancient Greek) Latin and also at least two modern foreign languages (usually English, french many times German or Italian). Don't forget that Greece is part of European Community so they speak fluently English and many of them speak also French, Italian and German too. In southern Greece they speak also Bulgarian, Slovakian and Turkish because there are many tourists from Bulgaria, Fyrom and Turkey come in Southern Greece. In Ionian islands the most of the habitats speak Italian because of tourism too.

mentzel63

of course it is greek but almost everybody speaks english and many other languages so that no tourist will have a problem communicating..

Styloroc

Greek (Ελληνικά, IPA [e̞ˌliniˈka] - "Hellenic") is an Indo-European language with a documented history of 3,500 years, the longest in the Indo-European family. Today, it is spoken by approximately 15 million people.

krys

greek.

tsopolly

Uh, Greek???

bostonianinmo

Greek, of course!

Tony G

Greek? What in the world are you guys talking about? The language in Greece is Ελληνικά (Hellenic). Ask anyone there, in Hellenic, what language they're speaking. I promise you that they will say something that sounds to an English ear WAY more like 'Hellenic' than like 'Greek.'

I think everyone got duped b/c the less-sexy "It's all Greek to me" won out in pop culture over the more accurate but stilted "It's all Hellenic to me."

Dear Ya'Sou, the question asks what do people IN GREECE speak. Using the word that WE (outside of Greece) use ('Greek') is not quite accurate. Efharisto! (Just an FYI: I DO know that your name is not Ya'Sou. That was a joke, like "It's all Hellenic to me.") Have a great day.

gabrielalaura74

lithoanian and spanish lol

Princess

I'm pretty sure it's Greek. Could be wrong though. DUH!

Texas Cowboy

Greek

crazi_catlady

Greek

i_am_katerina

Main language is Greek. Most people speak English as well so it is easy to get by if you are foreign.

Fishermans Wife

Greek of course.

backpacka

Well now they are on the same currency as Europe (Euro) they are changing the official language to European, which is a mixture of all the languages in Europe.

The official change is in 2007.

Good luck or Gundes lucia amigetzin

gcash81

Chinese

love2travel

Ελληνικά means Hellenic, which is what a Greek person would respond to your question in his language. But since we speak English, the folks who responded with Greek, were correct. This dictionary is not called Hellenic-English dictionary: http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon When Greek is written with latin letters, it is Hellenic. Ya'Sou!

andth90

Greek, but many people know english

jongoinsdc

A person who lives in greece speaks greek!

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