Greek language

Greek has a documented history of 3,500 years, the longest of any single language Language

A language is a system [i] of [i]s, such as voice sounds, gestures or written symbol [i] ... 

 within the Indo-European Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages comprise a family [i] of several hundred language [i]s and ... 

 family. It is also one of the earliest attested Indo-European languages, with fragmentary records in Mycenaean Mycenaean language

Mycenaean is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language [i], spoken on the Greek mainland and ... 

 dating back to the 15th or 14th century BC, matched only by the Anatolian languages and Vedic Sanskrit.

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300   Possible date of the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus, manuscripts of the Bible written in Greek.

1698   Humphrey Hody is appointed regius professor of Greek at Oxford.

1996   A Greek flag is hoisted on a small Rocky island named Imia (Greek) / Kardac (Turkish), initiating the Imia-Kardak crisis.



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Greek has a documented history of 3,500 years, the longest of any single language Language

A language is a system [i] of [i]s, such as voice sounds, gestures or written symbol [i]... 

 within the Indo-European Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages comprise a family [i] of several hundred language [i]s and ... 

 family. It is also one of the earliest attested Indo-European languages, with fragmentary records in Mycenaean Mycenaean language

Mycenaean is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language [i], spoken on the Greek mainland and ... 

 dating back to the 15th or 14th century BC, matched only by the Anatolian languages and Vedic Sanskrit.
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