Modern Greek language

Modern Greek, also known as Demotic Greek, is the vernacular language of Greece and Cyprus. It evolved from Koine Greek, with modifications and simplifications from its ancient roots. While vocabulary, phonology, and grammar are based on ancient Greek, they have been influenced by foreign powers throughout history, including Venetian and Turkish conquests.123

In 1976, Demotic Greek officially replaced Katharevusa Greek as the state language. Katharevusa was an artificial, purified form developed by nationalists to approximate classical norms. Today, Demotic and Katharevusa have merged into Standard Modern Greek. The language retains much of the inflectional structure of ancient Greek, with nouns having singular and plural forms and distinguishing nominative and accusative cases. Verbs are inflected for mood, aspect, voice, tense, and person. Modern Greek incorporates a significant number of words from Italian and Turkish, as well as more recent loans from French and English.1234