Greek

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Greek may refer to:

Anything related to Greece, a country in Europe.

  • Greeks, an ethnic group
  • Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
    • Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek
    • Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC)
    • Ancient Greek, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC
    • Koine Greek, common form used during Classical antiquity, c. 300 BC – 600 AD
    • Medieval Greek or Byzantine Language, used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
    • Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD)
  • Greek alphabet, script used to write the Greek language
  • Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church
  • Ancient Greece, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity
  • Old Greek, the language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around 1500 AD
  • Greek mythology, a body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greeks
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