"I would like to see the Hellenic language traveling with the Olympics, " he said.
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Standard Modern Greek is the officially used standard, but there are several non-official dialects and distinct Hellenic languages spoken as well.
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The "'Italic "'languages form a " centum " subfamily of the Hellenic languages, and a number of extinct ones.
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Several hypotheses have consequently been proposed as to the position of Macedonian, all of which broadly regard it as either a peripheral Greek dialect, a closely related but separate language ( see Hellenic languages ), or a hybridized idiom.
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A problem in the reconstruction of PIE concerns some cognate sets in which Indo-Iranian sibilants in clusters with dorsals exceptionally correspond to coronal stops in certain other branches ( particularly the Hellenic languages ) .'Bear'and'decaying'above are examples; some others are Sanskrit " t�kcan "'artisan'vs . Greek " t�ktMn "'carpenter', and Sanskrit " kc % " vs . Greek " khthSn " both'earth '.