Language code: el
Technical information about ISO 639 language code el
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The table below provides technical details for the Greek language, designated by the el code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Greek Native Ελληνικά |
| Family | Hellenic |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | Standard Modern (Demotic)Pontic GreekCappadocian GreekCypriot GreekCretan Greek |
| Related languages | Ancient GreekTsakonianPontic GreekCappadocian GreekYevanic |
| Key facts | Greek has the longest recorded history of any Indo-European tongue, with written evidence dating back over 3,400 yearsThe classical Greek alphabet was the first to mark vowels explicitly, influencing later scripts such as Latin and CyrillicModern Greek verbs preserve a full imperfective–perfective aspect distinction even though only four productive noun cases remainThousands of international scientific and technical terms are built from Greek rootsIn Greek punctuation, the mark () functions as a question mark, while the semicolon is written as a raised dot (·). |
| Sample phrase | Γεια σου, πώς είσαι; |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
Greek belongs to the Indo-European language family, more precisely to the Hellenic subgroup. It is the official language of Greece and Cyprus and is recognized as a minority language in several countries, including Turkey. It is written using the Greek alphabet. It is estimated that there are more than 13 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Greek speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
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- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
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- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- FAQ
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ