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.
Greeks have always had their own language which was Greek. Greek is one of the world's oldest recorded living languages. The history of the Greek Language begins around the laâ¦te 3rd millennium BC. In the classical period, about 500 BC, there were three versions of the Greek language.