Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That enduring, cross-border power of the Greek language stood at the heart of this year’s International Greek Language Day ...

Romeyka is a dialect of Greek spoken by small communities in north-eastern Turkey, notable for its connection to the ancient Greek 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 ...

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.

Demonstrating a fusion of two languages, a scholar and his students are combining computer code with classical Greek to create a language-learning app that will help Classics students practice ...

For some 2,500 years, residents of this mountainous village have used an astonishing language that only they understand. But there are only six people left who can ‘speak’ it. Hidden deep in the south ...

The language of the Pontic Greeks – ethnic Greeks who settled on the coast of the Turkish Black Sea – evolved completely differently to the language in their homeland. On a warm June evening, I was ...

What a relief that reason prevailed at the House education committee on Wednesday and the discriminatory bill that would have made passing a Greek language exam a requirement for attending a public ...

Words like demokratiya, teatr, akademiya, logika and kosmos are written today in Uzbek almost exactly as they sound in Greek. They appear in university lecture halls, academic texts and public ...