what language does greece use?
Greek Language
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 Greek demonstrates several linguistic features that are shared with other Balkan languages , such as Albanian , Bulgarian and Eastern Romance languages ( see Balkan sprachbund ) , and has absorbed many foreign words , primarily of Western European and Turkish origin . Because of the movements of Philhellenism and the Diafotismos in the 19th century , which emphasized the modern Greeks ' ancient heritage , these foreign influences were excluded from official use via the creation of Katharevousa , a somewhat artificial form of Greek purged of all foreign influence and words , as the official language of the Greek state . In 1976 , however , the Hellenic Parliament voted to make the spoken Dimotiki the official language , making Katharevousa obsolete . 

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 Modern Greek has , in addition to Standard Modern Greek or Dimotiki , a wide variety of dialects of varying levels of mutual intelligibility , including Cypriot , Pontic , Cappadocian , Griko and Tsakonian ( the only surviving representative of ancient Doric Greek ) . Yevanic is the language of the Romaniotes , and survives in small communities in Greece , New York and Israel . In addition to Greek , many Greeks in Greece and the Diaspora are bilingual in other languages or dialects such as English , Arvanitika / Albanian , Aromanian , Macedonian Slavic , Russian and Turkish . 

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 Skopiana or Skopianika ( Σκοπιανά or Σκοπιανικά ) refers to the Macedonian language . 

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 As of early 2008 , the official position of Greece , adopted unanimously by the four largest political parties , has made a more moderate shift towards accepting a " composite name solution " ( i.e. the use of the name " Macedonia " plus some qualifier ) , so as to disambiguate the former Yugoslav Republic from the Greek region of Macedonia and the wider geographic region of the same name . 

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 The Greeks speak the Greek language , which forms its own unique branch within the Indo @-@ European family of languages , the Hellenic . They are part of a group of pre @-@ modern ethnicities , described by Anthony D. Smith as an " archetypal diaspora people " . 
