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• One of the two official languages of Cyprus is Greek. Apart from the Standard Modern Greek language Greek Cypriots speak a local dialect.
• The earliest written evidence of Greek language is a Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia making Greek the world’s oldest recorded living language.
• The Greek language uses the Greek alphabet and has 24 letters.
• The Greek alphabet was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the first alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants.
• It became the ancestor of numerous other European and Middle Eastern alphabets, including Latin and Cyrillic.
• The Greek alphabet today also serves as a source of technical symbols and labels in many domains of mathematics, science and other fields.