Editing Greece (section)

=== Languages ===
{{Main|Greek language|Varieties of Modern Greek|Languages of Greece|Minorities in Greece}}
[[File:Greece linguistic minorities.svg|thumb|upright=1.1|Regions with a traditional presence of languages other than Greek. Today, Greek is the dominant language throughout the country.<ref>{{cite web | publisher = Summer institute of Linguistics | url = http://www.ethnologue.com/country/GR/languages | title = Languages of Greece | website = Ethnologue | access-date = 19 December 2010 | archive-date = 6 April 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130406054419/http://www.ethnologue.com/country/GR/languages | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Euromosaic – Le [slavo]macédonien / bulgare en Grèce |url=https://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/document/macedoni/fr/i1/i1.html |website=www.uoc.edu |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044656/http://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/document/macedoni/fr/i1/i1.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Euromosaic – L'arvanite / albanais en Grèce |url=https://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/document/albanes/fr/i2/i2.html |website=www.uoc.edu |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702205628/https://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/document/albanes/fr/i2/i2.html |archive-date=2 July 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Euromosaic – Le valaque (aromoune, aroumane) en Grèce |url=https://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/document/valac/fr/i1/i1.html |website=www.uoc.edu |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170314/http://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/document/valac/fr/i1/i1.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Turkish The Turkish language in Education in Greece |url=https://www.mercator-research.eu/fileadmin/mercator/documents/regional_dossiers/turkish_in_greece.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124027/https://www.mercator-research.eu/fileadmin/mercator/documents/regional_dossiers/turkish_in_greece.pdf |archive-date=9 February 2019 |url-status=live |website=mercator-research.eu}}</ref>{{Sfn | Trudgill | 2000}}]]

Greece is relatively homogeneous in linguistic terms, with a large majority of the native population using Greek as their first or only language. Among the Greek-speaking population, speakers of the distinctive [[Pontic Greek|Pontic]] dialect came to Greece from Asia Minor after the [[Greek genocide]] and constitute a sizable group. The [[Cappadocian Greek|Cappadocian]] dialect came due to the genocide as well, but is endangered and barely spoken. Indigenous Greek dialects include the archaic Greek spoken by the [[Sarakatsani]], traditionally [[Transhumance|transhumant]] mountain shepherds of [[Greek Macedonia]] and other parts of [[Northern Greece]]. The [[Tsakonian language]], a distinct Greek language derived from [[Doric Greek]] instead of [[Koine Greek]], is still spoken in villages in the southeastern Peloponnese.

The Muslim minority in Thrace, approximately 0.95% of the population, consists of speakers of [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] ([[Pomaks]]){{Sfn | Trudgill | 2000}} and [[Romani language|Romani]]. Romani is spoken by Christian [[Romani people|Roma]] in other parts of the country. The [[Council of Europe]] has estimated that there are approximately 265,000 [[Romani people]] living in Greece (2.47% of the population).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Greece - European Commission|url=https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/combatting-discrimination/roma-eu/roma-equality-inclusion-and-participation-eu-country/greece_en |website=commission.europa.eu|access-date=20 May 2024|archive-date=20 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520084405/https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/combatting-discrimination/roma-eu/roma-equality-inclusion-and-participation-eu-country/greece_en|url-status=live}}</ref> Other minority languages have traditionally been spoken by regional population groups in various areas. Their use decreased radically in the course of the 20th century through assimilation with the Greek-speaking majority. They are only maintained by the older generations and almost extinct. The same is true for the [[Arvanites]], an [[Albanian language|Albanian]]-speaking group mostly located in rural areas around Athens, and for the [[Aromanians]] and [[Megleno-Romanians]] whose language is closely related to [[Romanian language|Romanian]] and who used to live scattered across areas of mountainous central Greece. Members of these groups usually identify ethnically as Greek<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cilevics.eu/minelres/reports/greece/greece_NGO.htm |publisher=Greek Helsinki Monitor |title=Minority Rights Group, Greece, Report about Compliance with the Principles of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (along guidelines for state reports according to Article 25.1 of the Convention) |date=8 September 1999 |access-date=27 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111161345/http://www.cilevics.eu/minelres/reports/greece/greece_NGO.htm |archive-date=11 January 2012}}</ref> and are bilingual in Greek.

Near the northern Greek borders there are some [[Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia|Slavic–speaking groups]], most of whom identify ethnically as Greeks. It is estimated that after the population exchanges of 1923, [[Macedonia (Greece)|Macedonia]] had 200,000 to 400,000 [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] speakers.{{sfn|Roudometof|2001|p=186}} The Jewish community traditionally spoke [[Ladino language|Ladino]] (Judeo-Spanish), today maintained by a few thousand speakers. Other notable minority languages include [[Armenian language|Armenian]], [[Georgian language|Georgian]], and the Greco-Turkic dialect spoken by the [[Urums]], a community of [[Caucasus Greeks]] from the [[Tsalka]] region of central Georgia and ethnic Greeks from southeastern [[Greeks in Ukraine|Ukraine]] who arrived in Northern Greece as economic migrants in the 1990s.