Only about two percent of people were chronically poor under the supplemental measure, compared with 3.3 percent under the official rate. This is important, because research shows that chronic poverty does the most long-term harm to people, especially children.
Greek is the official language of Greece, where it is spoken by almost the entire population. It is also the official language of Cyprus (nominally alongside Turkish). Because of the membership of Greece and Cyprus in the European Union, Greek is one of the organization's 24 official languages.
There are two forms of modern Greek; one is the language spoken by Greeks everyday, the other is a more formal Greek, still used for formal occasions, which is closer to anc â¦ ient Greek-although not the same. So no, neither forms of modern Greek is the same as ancient Greek.odern Greek is one language and it' s the language that modern Greeks speak and write either in formal or informal occasions. Now to answer to the main question, i have to say that the ancient Greek language have changed so much during the centuries that a modern Greek have to study it in order to understand it.