Modern Greek

English

Proper noun

Modern Greek

1. The Greek language as spoken by the Greek people since the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It was written using polytonic script until 1982, when this was officially dropped in favour of monotonic.

Synonyms

• (post-15th century Greek): Romaic; New Greek

Meronyms

• Demotic Greek
• Katharevousa
• SMG
• Standard Modern Greek

 

Translations

Modern Greek

• Arabic: اَللُّغَة اَلْيُونَانِيَّة اَلْحَدِيثَة f (al-luḡa l-yūnāniyya l-ḥadīṯa)
• Armenian: նոր հունարեն (nor hunaren)
• Catalan: grec modern (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 現代希臘語 / 现代希腊语 (Xiàndài Xīlàyǔ)

• Czech: novořečtina (cs) f, moderní řečtina f
• Danish: nygræsk n
• Dutch: Nieuwgrieks n
• Finnish: nykykreikka
• French: néo-grec (fr), grec moderne (fr) m
• Galician: grego moderno m
• German: Neugriechisch (de) n; (adjective) neugriechisch (de)
• Greek: νέα ελληνικά (el) n pl (néa elliniká), νεοελληνικά (el) n pl (neoelliniká), νέα ελληνική (el) f (néa ellinikí)
• Japanese: 現代ギリシア語 (げんだいぎりしゃご, gendai Girisha-go)
• Khmer: ក្រិកទំនើប (krəc tumnəəp)
• Korean: 현대 그리스어 (hyeondae Geuriseueo)
• Latin: lingua neograeca, lingua graeca nova, lingua graeca vulgaris
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nygresk m

  Nynorsk: nygresk m

• Polish: nowogrecki (pl) m
• Portuguese: grego moderno (pt) m
• Romanian: neogreacă (ro) f, greaca modernă f (def. form)
• Russian: новогре́ческий (ru) m (novogréčeskij)
• Spanish: griego moderno m
• Swedish: nygrekiska (sv) c
• Vietnamese: tiếng Hy Lạp hiện đại

See also

• Ancient Greek
• Byzantine Greek
• Classical Greek
• demotic
• Koine
• Medieval Greek
• monotonic
• polytonic

 

Further reading

• Modern Greek on Wikipedia.Wikipedia