As fears about Greek language decline grow, the Pharos Alliance outlines a strategic path forward and asks the community to ...

The second Greek Youth Diaspora Symposium completed its work in Athens at the "Hellenic Cosmos" Cultural Centre, bringing together participants from 31 different countries across five continents to ...

The history of Modern Greek at Harvard University began in 1828, just a few years after the Greek War of Independence started.

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.

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 ...

In the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, fictional Greek-American small business owner Gus Portokalos repeatedly issues a bold linguistic challenge: “Give me a word—any word—and I’ll show you how the ...

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 ...

Greek language and literature examines the ancient Greek language, literature and culture, as well as research focused on them and their residual effects. Classical Greek language and literature have ...

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 ...

Archive photo shows a sculpture of the ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite on display at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Photo: DPA German speakers probably know more Greek than they think. Here's a run ...