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Greek

vr.tr.greek · INF.MED

Let an agent describe the Greek language and its history and varieties, support learning and translation, explain status and regulation, and provide sourced information on dialects and diaspora.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent describe the Greek language and its history and varieties, support learning and translation, explain status and regulation, and provide sourced information on dialects and diaspora.

An Indo-European language of the Hellenic branch spoken by about thirteen million people, the official language of Greece and Cyprus, with a documented history of over three thousand years from Mycenaean and Ancient Greek through Koine and Byzantine Greek to Modern Greek, written in the Greek alphabet and with dialects and diaspora varieties such as Italiot Greek, Cargese Greek and Greek in Turkey, and informal Latin-script writing known as Greeklish.

What it is for: The Hellenic language.

It can be describe the language and its history; support learning and translation; explain status and standards; describe dialects and diaspora varieties.

Distinguishing features

Long documented history

Own alphabet

Official in Greece and Cyprus

Diaspora varieties

What it looks like

Not physical; spoken and written language in the Greek alphabet.

How it is recognised

Hellenic Indo-European language

Greek alphabet

Ancient and Modern Greek are stages of the same language

Related models

is a kind of - category

Hellenic

is spoken by - the people

Greeks

is related to - the Greek alphabet

alphabet

is related to - another language entry

Bulgarian

In practice

Families and kinds

Standard Modern Greek

Cypriot Greek

Pontic and Cappadocian Greek

Italiot and other diaspora varieties

historical stages such as Ancient, Koine and Byzantine Greek

Identifiers

ISO 639-1 el language code

ISO 639-3 ell Modern Greek code

Standards and regulation

Greek and Cypriot language policy

EU official language status

Minority language provisions elsewhere

Failure modes and hazards

Confusing Ancient and Modern Greek

Overgeneralising dialects

Machine translation errors with register

Also called

Modern GreekGreek language in TurkeyGreek language in the United KingdomGreeklishCargese GreekItaliot GreekCypriot GreekVarieties of Modern GreekDemotic GreekKatharevousaCretan GreekSarakatsanikaProto-GreekGreco-Australian dialectRomejkaromeikaIstanbul Greek dialectTsakonianmedieval GreekPontic GreekMariupolitan GreekHimariote Greek dialectCappadocian GreekArchaic GreekNorthern GreekSouthern Greek

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Learn Learning Greek.

Practice.

Start

Getting started.

Start

Getting started.

  1. How can someone start learning Modern Greek, and which resources exist? action
  2. What are its main grammatical features? definition

Script

Alphabet and Greeklish.

Script

Script.

  1. How is the Greek alphabet used and pronounced today, and what is Greeklish? provenance
  2. Which transliteration standards apply? provenance
Use Translation and varieties.

Application.

Translate

Translation.

Translate

Translation.

  1. How should this text be translated into or from Greek, with attention to register and to Ancient versus Modern forms? action
  2. Which dictionaries are authoritative? provenance

Varieties

Dialects and diaspora.

Varieties

Varieties.

  1. What are Cypriot, Pontic, Italiot, Cargese and other Greek varieties, and where are they spoken? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific variety? action
Status Status and policy.

Regulation.

Official

Official status.

Official

Status.

  1. What is the legal status of Greek in Greece, Cyprus, the EU and countries with Greek minorities? provenance
  2. How is the language regulated and taught? provenance

Question

The language question.

Question

Language question.

  1. What was the Greek language question between demotic and katharevousa, and how was it resolved? provenance
  2. Are positions attributed neutrally? boundary
History History and literature.

Context.

History

History of Greek.

History

History.

  1. How did Greek develop from Mycenaean through Ancient, Koine and Byzantine Greek to Modern Greek? provenance
  2. Which texts are landmarks? provenance

Literature

Literature.

Literature

Literature.

  1. What are the major works of Greek literature across periods? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific work? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should Ancient Greek be a separate entry?
  • How should dictionaries be linked?
  • How should diaspora varieties be documented?
Draft as JSON