Greek (Modern Greek: [elinika], ellinik, "Greek",

[elinici losa] ( listen), ellinik glssa, "Greek language") is an

independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to
Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest
documented history of any living Indo-European language, spanning 34
centuries of written records.[3] Its writing system has been the Greek
alphabet for the major part of its history; other systems, such as Linear B
and the Cypriot syllabary, were used previously.[4] The alphabet arose from
the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic,
Armenian, Coptic, Gothic and many other writing systems.