A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...
An isolated community near the Black Sea coast in a remote part of north-eastern Turkey has been found to speak a Greek dialect that is remarkably close to the extinct language of ancient Greece. As ...
In the Greek island village of Antio, home to the world's most endangered language, aging residents communicate across hillsides through whistles, a specific system of communication believed to date ...
The conference will provide teachers of Modern Greek a unique networking and professional development opportunity. K-12 teachers of Modern Greek in government and non-government schools are invited to ...
You may remember a line in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding when the character Gus Portokalos boasts to someone, "Say any word, and I'll tell you how the root of that word is Greek." This assertion ...
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 ...
Friedrich Nietzsche once quipped that ‘God learnt Greek when he wanted to become an author’. On the April 14, 2025 Unesco agreed with him, formally recognising Greek as “the longest continuously ...
Jack Knudson is an assistant editor for Discover Magazine who writes articles on space, ancient humans, animals, and sustainability, and manages the Planet Earth column of the print issue. View Full ...