Greece is being urged to grant more recognition to its minority languages -- Vlach, Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, and a version of Bulgarian called Pomak. At present, only Turkish is recognized. Now ...

Romeyka, a relative of the Modern Greek language, has a shrinking population of speakers in Turkey, but a helping hand from scholars and the general public may help it survive. Thousands of languages ...

There are more than 300 Turkish words that are used in the Greek language. After all the Greeks were under Ottoman occupation ...

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.

At first glance, it looks like someone enjoyed taking the spaces out of a sentence; in reality, it's a single word by ...

Greece is to start teaching languages to refugee children in an EU-funded pilot scheme. The country's Education Ministry will launch pilot education and activity schemes over the summer in refugee ...

For some 2,500 years, residents of this mountainous village have used an astonishing language that only they understand. But there are only six people left who can ‘speak’ it. Hidden deep in the south ...