Hellenic is the branch of Indo-European whose only surviving member is Greek, but the branch's internal history includes several extinct or poorly attested ancient varieties, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Macedonian and a scatter of regional dialects, whose exact relationship to the mainstream of ancient Greek is debated. This child group, under Indo-European Branches, holds every Eurasian Language Families member whose sourced description identifies it as Hellenic, Greek or a named ancient Greek-adjacent variety classified within the branch.
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Primary RegionGreece and the Eastern Mediterranean 1 Indo-European: Hellenic Branch
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1. Wikipedia: Greek Language
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It is native to the territories that have had populations of Greeks since antiquity: Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Turkey, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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