Cyprus Mail on MSN

Learning Greek, speaking Cypriot: what’s wrong with a classroom in dialect?

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...
Greek City Times

Strong Greek Language Retention in Australia

A new report reveals Australia leads the US and Canada in Greek language retention among the diaspora, with 21% of third-generation Greek Australians still using the language, thanks to strong ...
Cyprus Mail

First-ever language app for Cypriot Greek launched

The first mobile language app dedicated entirely to Cypriot Greek, Cyprusays, was launched on Thursday, offering users around the world the chance to learn and speak this distinctive Mediterranean ...
Neos Kosmos

Australia to recognise World Greek Language Day at UNESCO General Conference

Australia will officially recognise World Greek Language Day during the upcoming UNESCO General Conference, in a move hailed as a significant milestone for the Greek Australian community and for ...
Neos Kosmos

First intensive online summer school for Greek language teachers in Australia

For the first time in Australia, an intensive online summer training program is being organised for teachers of the Greek diaspora who teach Greek as a second or foreign language. The program will ...
The Hindu

How linguists figured Hindi, Greek, English all come from a single ancient language

If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly familiar. French mort (dead) recalls English murder. German Hund (dog) is a dead ringer for hound. Czech ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here's how we know

If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly familiar. French mort (dead) recalls English murder. German Hund (dog) is a dead ringer for hound. Czech ...
The Independent

Hindi, Greek and English all came from a now-extinct tongue

If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly familiar. French mort (dead) recalls English murder. German Hund (dog) is a dead ringer for hound. Czech ...
The Conversation

Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know

Mark W. Post does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Yahoo News Australia

Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know

But the preceding sets of words actually are related to one another. They are cognate, which means they share a common origin in descent from a single ancestral language. This now-extinct tongue was ...
Boston College

Modern Greek literature resource

A semester that concluded with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ speech at Commencement also saw the launch of a major online resource for Greek literature that was largely developed at Boston ...
WMUR

Annual Greek festival in Manchester draws in large crowds

TO THE LEFT THERE’S SINGING, THERE’S DANCING. AND ORGANIZERS SAY THEY’RE EXPECTING TO SEE OVER 8000 PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE FESTIVAL. THEY’VE GOT GAMES. THEY’RE RAFFLING OFF ALL KINDS OF ...