Hellenic languages

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The Hellenic languages are a branch of languages from the Indo-European language family. The main language is Greek. Many people say that Greek is the only language in the branch.[2][3] Some people also say that the ancient Macedonian language is part of the branch.[4] Others say it was simply a dialect of Greek.[5]

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Hellenic
Greek
Geographic
distribution:
Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Anatolia and the Black Sea region
Linguistic classification:Indo-European
  • (?) Graeco-Phrygian[1]
    • Hellenic
Proto-language:Proto-Greek
Subdivisions:
(?) Macedonian
ISO 639-5:grk
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