"The Greeks Had a Word for It"
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Zoe Akins, Title of play (1930)
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Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, Elliniká; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the which arose from the and was in turn
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