ABOUT THE LANGUAGE AND THE COUNTRY OF MY. The oldest Greece Greece (officially: Greek Republic) is a country on the southeastern edge of Europe, at the southernmost tip of the Balkan Peninsula. It has coasts in the Eastern Mediterranean where there are the island of clusters and the largest island of the country, Crete. Located on the 97th place in the ranking of the world's countries according to their scope. The capital and largest city is Athens.
Greek language is one of the Indo-European languages, for which we have written texts from the 15th century BC until today. The Greek today is the mother tongue of about 12 million people, mainly in Greece and Cyprus. It is also the mother tongue of indigenous populations in Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Italy and Turkey. Because immigration language still spoken in destination countries Greek-speaking populations including Australia, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, Serbia and the United States.