GREEK

i really interesting with this word "Greek"..

because i seldom heard this word in reading 3 and i don't know what is the name of Greek clearly..

today i searching it in Wikipedia i know that Greek is a name of nation or ethnic group.

thisd isd sdomwe information that i got from WEikiPwedsia about it.

History

Further information: History of Greece

A reconstruction of the 3rd millennium BC "Proto-Greek area", according linguist V. I. Georgiev.

The Greeks speak the Greek language, which forms its own unique branch within the Indo-Europeanfamily of languages, the Hellenic language.^[38] They are part of a group of pre-modern ethnicities, described by Anthony D. Smith as an "archetypal diaspora people".^[41][42]

The modern Greek state was created in 1832, when the Greeks liberated a part of their historic homelands from the Ottoman Empire.^[43] The large Greek diaspora and merchant class were instrumental in transmitting the ideas of western romantic nationalism and philhellenism,^[44] which together with the conception of Hellenism, formulated during the last centuries of the Byzantine Empire, formed the basis of the Diafotismos and the current conception of Hellenism.^[45][46][47]

[edit]Origins

Further information: Proto-Greek language and List of Ancient Greek tribes

The Proto-Greeks probably arrived at the area now called Greece, in the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, at the end of the 3rd millennium BC.^[48][49][a] The sequence of migrations into the Greek mainland during the 2nd millennium BC has to be reconstructed on the basis of the ancient Greek dialects, as they presented themselves centuries later and is subject to some uncertainties. There were at least two migrations, the first of the Ionians and Aeolians which resulted in Mycenaean Greece by the 16th century BC,^[38][50] and the second, the Dorian invasion, around the 11th century BC, displacing the Arcadocypriot dialects which descended from the Mycenaean period. Both migrations occur at incisive periods, the Mycenaean at the transition to the Late Bronze Age and the Doric at the Bronze Age collapse.

There were some suggestions of three waves of migration indicating a Proto-Ionian one, either contemporary or even earlier than the Mycenaean. This possibility appears to have been first suggested by Ernst Curtius in the 1880s. In current scholarship, the standard assumption is to group the Ionic together with the Arcadocypriot group as the successors of a single Middle Bronze Age migration in dual opposition to the "western" group of Doric.