Language code: el

Technical information about ISO 639 language code el

Technical information about el language code (Greek) is available below.

ISO code

el

Language

Official

Greek

Native

Ελληνικά

Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Greek speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

el-CY Greek (Cyprus)

el-GR Greek (Greece)

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