Modern Greek

English

Noun

Modern Greek (uncountable)

1. The Greek language as spoken since the 16th century. Written in polytonic script until 1982, and in monotonic script after 1982.

Synonyms

• (post-16th century Greek): Greek, New Greek, post-20th century Standard Modern Greek (SMG)

Meronyms

• Demotic Greek
• Katharevousa

Related terms

• Ancient Greek
• Classical Greek
• Medieval Greek, Byzantine Greek

Translations

Modern Greek

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

  Mandarin: 現代希臘語／现代希腊语, 现代希腊语 (xiàndài Xīlà-yǔ)

• Czech: novořečtina (cs) f, moderní řečtina f
• Danish: nygræsk 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)
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• Khmer: ក្រិកទំនើប (krəc tumnəəp)
• Korean: 현대 그리스어 (ko) (hyeondae Geuriseu-eo)
• Latin: lingua neograeca, lingua graeca nova, lingua graeca vulgaris
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nygresk m

  Nynorsk: nygresk 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 c
• Vietnamese: tiếng Hy Lạp hiện đại

See also

• Koine
• demotic
• polytonic
• Wikipedia article on Modern Greek