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 belongs to the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European language family, and is spoken by about 13 million people mainly in Greece and Cyprus, where it is an official language. Greek is also recognised as a minority language in parts of Italy, and in Albania, Armenia, Romania and Ukraine. Greek was first written in Mycenae with a script known as Linear B, which was used between about 1500 and 1200 BC. This variety of Greek is known as Mycenaean. On Crete another script, known as the Cypriot syllabary, was used to write the local variety of Greek between about 1200 and 300 BC.