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.
See also: Greeks in Albania. Greek is the largest minority language of Albania and first largest foreign language. It is spoken by around 0.5% of the population of Albania. The Albanian Greeks speak a modern southern Greek dialect, known as Northern Epirote. Due to its geographical location and dialectal status it is not considered part the dialect continuum of Greek language varieties.