Could an ancient Athenian understand a Byzantine Greek speaker and realize they spoke different versions of the same language ...

Greece is being urged to grant more recognition to its minority languages -- Vlach, Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, and a version of Bulgarian called Pomak. At present, only Turkish is recognized. Now ...

Greek studies provide a vital framework for understanding modern democracy and ethics despite frequently being misidentified ...

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.

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 ...

Greece is to start teaching languages to refugee children in an EU-funded pilot scheme. The country's Education Ministry will launch pilot education and activity schemes over the summer in refugee ...