Ancient Greek: in its various dialects, the language of the Archaic and Classical periods of the ancient Greek civilization. It is recorded in the Linear B script on tablets dating from the 15th century BC onwards. Mycenaean Greek: the language of the Mycenaean civilization. The unity of Proto-Greek would have ended as Hellenic migrants entered the Greek peninsula sometime in the Neolithic era or the Bronze Age. Proto-Greek: the unrecorded but assumed last ancestor of all known varieties of Greek. The Greek language is conventionally divided into the following periods: Proto-Greek-speaking area according to linguist Vladimir I. Greek roots have been widely used for centuries and continue to be widely used to coin new words in other languages Greek and Latin are the predominant sources of international scientific vocabulary. It is spoken by at least 13.5 million people today in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Albania, Turkey, and the many other countries of the Greek diaspora. In its modern form, Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. It eventually became the official language of the Byzantine Empire and developed into Medieval Greek. Together with the Latin texts and traditions of the Roman world, the Greek texts and Greek societies of antiquity constitute the objects of study of the discipline of Classics.ĭuring antiquity, Greek was by far the most widely spoken lingua franca in the Mediterranean world. The New Testament of the Christian Bible was also originally written in Greek. Greek is also the language in which many of the foundational texts in science and philosophy were originally composed. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting importance in the European canon. The Greek language holds an important place in the history of the Western world. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Greek ( Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Albania, and the other parts of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, and the Eastern Mediterranean. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. (The map does not indicate where the language is majority or minority.) To the men and women of Simple Greek, becoming a Hometown Hero is not complicated.Areas where Modern Greek is spoken (in dark blue those areas where it is the official language). “It just means getting food into people’s bellies that don’t know where their next meal is going to be coming from, and it’s just awesome to be a big part of it,” Staffrey said. Together, they will have distributed 3,000 dinners. 
There are three Simple Greek restaurants in the area: Boardman, Niles and Hermitage.
And our Niles location, we are doing the Rescue Mission,” Staffrey said. “We are doing about 200 meals to the Way Station out in Columbiana today from this location.
Staffrey is the regional coordinator for the three Simple Greek restaurants in this area. So, we chose a private company, a private restaurant franchise called the Simple Greek. There are so many social agencies, organizations, clubs that are donating food to the hungry this Christmas, it’s hard to pick out one to be representative. By the time the holidays are over, Katie Staffrey and her fellow restaurant employees will have fed thousands. NILES, Ohio (WYTV) – Our Hometown Hero is feeding people this week.
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