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.
Greek Alphabet & Writing: An Introduction. The Greek language has been written in some form of the Greek alphabet for over 2700 years, beginning with Homer's poetry and continuing to the present Demotic Greek, the language of modern Greece. A number of changes have found their way into the written language since classical times.