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.
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.