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Modern Greek

Noun

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the Greek language as spoken and written today

Source: WordNet

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Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely. Rupert Murdoch

Based on its phonetic value in Modern Greek, gamma has also been introduced in a number of modern Latin-alphabet based phonetic notations ( Latin (or latinized) gamma Ɣ). Source: Internet

Because of their codification in the Modern Greek state, surnames have Katharevousa forms even though Katharevousa is no longer the official standard. Source: Internet

Modern Greek literature is usually (but not exclusively) written in polytonic orthography. Source: Internet

“I wrote another book in 2012 -- a textbook on Modern Greek -- and I gave it to Cambridge University Press because they wanted it, and they said they’d charge $39.00 for it. Source: Internet

In Modern Greek, as in Ancient Greek, second declension masculine nouns have a vocative ending in -ε; however, in practice the accusative case is often used as a vocative in informal speech, e.g. "Έλα εδώ, Χρήστο" "Come here, Christos" instead of ". Source: Internet

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