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 ==Description==
 The languages spoken in Greece are <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Greece," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece#:~:text=Greece%20is%20today%20relatively%20homogeneous, accessed 24 May 2023.</ref> <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Languages of Greece," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Greece, accessed 24 May 2023.</ref> <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Greek language," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language, accessed 24 May 2023.</ref>
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Greek '''Modern Greek'''] - usually known simply as '''Greek'''.
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Greek '''Modern Greek'''] - usually known simply as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language '''Greek'''] -  the only official language of Greece.
-** spoken by 99% of the population as their only language or their first language. It is the official language of Greece.
+** spoken by 99% of the population as their only language or their first language.
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic_Greek '''Pontic Greek'''] - a dialect spoken by a large group of immigrants from Asia Minor.
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakonian_language '''Tsakonian'''] - spoken is some villages in the southeastern Peloponnese.
+Regional Greek dialects spoken in Greece include <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Languages of Greece," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Greece, accessed 24 May 2023.</ref>
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocian_Greek '''Cappadocian Greek'''] - very few speakers today. A Hellenic language originally spoken in Cappadocia.
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretan_Greek '''Cretan Greek'''] - spoken on the island of Crete by more than 500,000 people. Also spoken in the Greek Diaspora.
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypriot_Greek '''Cypriot Greek''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniots#Maniot_dialect '''Maniot Greek''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic_Greek '''Pontic Greek''']
+* '''Thracian Greek'''
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarakatsani '''Sarakatsani''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakonian_language '''Tsakonian Greek''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevanic_language '''Yevanic Greek''']
+The Minority Languages (non-official) spoken in Greece are <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Languages_of_Greece," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Greece#Minority languages, accessed 24 May 2023.</ref>
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanians_in_Greece '''Albanian''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvanitika '''Arvanitika''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians_in_Greece '''Armenian''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromanian_language '''Aromanian''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megleno-Romanian_language '''Megleno-Romanian''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_language '''Macedonian''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_language '''Bulgarian''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaeo-Spanish '''Ladino''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_language '''Romani''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language '''Russian''']
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language '''Turkish''']
+* '''Greco-Turkic or Urum''' - dialect spoken by the Urums.
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_language '''Georgian''']
 The most common foreign languages in Greece are