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Greek is spoken by about 13 million people, mainly in Greece, Albania and Cyprus, but also worldwide by the large Greek diaspora. There are traditional Greek-speaking settlements and regions in the neighbouring countries of Albania, Bulgaria, and Turkey, as well as in several countries in the Black Sea area, such as Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, and around the Mediterranean Sea, Southern Italy, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, and ancient coastal towns along the Levant. The language is also spoken by Greek emigrant communities in many countries in Western Europe, especially the United Kingdom and Germany, Canada, the United States, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and others.[citation needed] Official status[edit] Greek is the official language of Greece, where it is spoken by almost the entire population.[14] It is also the official language of Cyprus (nominally alongside Turkish).[15] Because of the membership of Greece and Cyprus in the European Union, Greek is one of the organization's 23 official languages.[16] Furthermore, Greek is officially recognized as a minority language in parts of Italy and all over Albania,[3] as well as in Syria, Armenia, Romania, and Ukraine as a regional or minority language in the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.[5] Greeks are also a recognized ethnic minority in Hungary. |
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