"Modern Greek" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{en-prop|head=Modern Greek}} Modern Greek
  1. The Greek language as spoken by the Greek people since the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It was written using polytonic script until 1982, when this was officially dropped in favour of monotonic. Categories (topical): Languages Synonyms (post-15th century Greek): Romaic, New Greek Meronyms: Demotic Greek, Katharevousa, SMG, Standard Modern Greek Related terms: Ancient Greek, Byzantine Greek, Classical Greek, demotic, Koine, Medieval Greek, polytonic Translations (Modern Greek): اَللُّغَة اَلْيُونَانِيَّة اَلْحَدِيثَة (al-luḡa l-yūnāniyya l-ḥadīṯa) [feminine] (Arabic), նոր հունարեն (nor hunaren) (Armenian), grec modern [masculine] (Catalan), 現代希臘語 (Chinese Mandarin), 现代希腊语 (Xiàndài Xīlàyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), novořečtina [feminine] (Czech), moderní řečtina [feminine] (Czech), nygræsk [neuter] (Danish), Nieuwgrieks [neuter] (Dutch), nykykreikka (Finnish), néo-grec (French), grec moderne [masculine] (French), grego moderno [masculine] (Galician), Neugriechisch [neuter] (German), neugriechisch [adjective] (German), νέα ελληνικά (néa elliniká) [neuter, plural] (Greek), νεοελληνικά (neoelliniká) [neuter, plural] (Greek), νέα ελληνική (néa ellinikí) [feminine] (Greek), 現代ギリシア語 (gendai Girisha-go) (alt: げんだいぎりしゃご) (Japanese), ក្រិកទំនើប (krəc tumnəəp) (Khmer), 현대 그리스어 (hyeondae Geuriseueo) (Korean), lingua neograeca (Latin), lingua graeca nova (Latin), lingua graeca vulgaris (Latin), nygresk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), nygresk [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), nowogrecki [masculine] (Polish), grego moderno [masculine] (Portuguese), neogreacă [feminine] (Romanian), greaca modernă (note: def. form) [feminine] (Romanian), новогре́ческий (novogréčeskij) [masculine] (Russian), griego moderno [masculine] (Spanish), nygrekiska [common-gender] (Swedish), tiếng Hy Lạp hiện đại (Vietnamese)

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