China is now the biggest potato producer, and almost a third of all potatoes is harvested in China and India. Asia and Europe are the world's major potato producing regions, accounting for more than 80 percent of world production in 2007.
The one official language of Greece is Modern Greek. Ancient Greek was spoken in ancient times. Many changes and simplifications have occured to Ancient Greek to form today's Modern Greek. The Jewish minority speaks Ladino. The Muslim minority speaks Bulgarian, Romani, or Turkish. Other minority languages are Albanian, Macedonian, and Romanian.
Words from Greek. The words in this list are all related to words that were used 2500 years ago! English gets an important part of its vocabulary from the language of ancient Greece. Classical Greek, as it is called, is quite different from but closely related to the language spoken in Greece today.