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|nativename        = A gnújza Grekelénikin

Grekelin ([[w:Autoglossonym|Autoglossonym]]: ''A gnújza Grekelénikin'', pronounced: /a ˈɡnʊd͡ʒɑ grːɛkɛˈlɛnikin/, lit. "The Grekelin language") is a [[w:Hellenic languages|Hellenic]] language spoken in Vojvodina, southern Hungary and small parts of Slovakia. Grekelin split from [[w:Medieval Greek|Medieval Greek]] around the 11th century with the mass settlement of Hungary by Greek refugees, and has since then split for more than 10 centuries from (Demotic) Greek. For the largest part of its existence, Grekelin was mostly a spoken language, and the language began being systematically written down around the 19th century (Where it gained it's modern orthography). Due to its low prestige, most of its educated speakers preferred writing in Koine, Latin or Hungarian and few texts were written until then in Grekelin, most of which used the Greek script instead (See [[Proto-Grekelin]]).

As a related language to Greek, Grekelin shares with Greek multiple features and cognates although it remains more conservative than Standard Greek. However the language has become an SOV one (As opposed to most Indo-European languages which are SVO) due to extensive Hungarian influence. It's vocabulary has almost mostly remained Greek however Hungarian words can be found often in the language, due to the strong adstratum formed by Hungarian (Though, due to geography, the Slavic dialect got its name from its stronger Slavic influence). Grekelin is the most isolated Hellenic language currently in the entire world, with about 1200 kilometers of language seperation.

| Nominative || (A) gnújza || (A) gnújzek

| Genitive || Ca gnújzas || Ca gnújzes

| Accusative || Ecs gnújza || Ecs gnújzek

Grekelin preserved all Medieval Greek vowels, except for /y/ which became an /i/ as well. Depending on the dialect, vowel length does persist, however Standard Grekelin does not enforce vowel length distinction in any vowel.

Many consonants underwent a very regular but much more extensive evolution found in most Greek dialects, called Tsitakismos, where /k/ and /c/ are palatalized. Modern Grekelin further merged many consonants and clusters in words into /d͡ʒ/, such as /ks/, /z/, /n/, /k/ and /ɣ/. /l/ became entirely /ɫ/, something only common in Macedonia then. Finally, in Proto-Grekelin, if the preceding letter was a consonant, /v/ became /w/.

Metathesis is very common in the language too, as consonant clusters are often split apart eg. Greek '''Αλεύρι''' vs Grekelin '''Aléwir'''.

# Grekelin: '''Eí leótte egó íwloi'''

| Hello! || ''Jzóworzso!'' (Formal) / ''Gya!'' (Informal) || /'d͡ʒoβorʐo/ /ɟʲɑː/

| Good morning! || ''Jo regzétti!'' || /d͡ʒo rɛ'ɟkʰɛːti/

| Good night! || ''Jo niktrá!'' || /d͡ʒo nik'tr̩ɑ/

| Goodbye! || ''Wísontlataszra'' || /'visontɭatɑːʃr̩a/

| Thank you! || ''Jzómmo!'' || /ˈd͡ʒomo/

| Where are you from? || ''Pe éste ecs szy?'' || /pɛ ˈɛste ɛt͡s ʃi/

The Slavic (''"Dialékti Sláwin"'', "/djɑˈɫɛ.kti sɫɑvin/" or "/diaˈɫʲekta sɫɑvʲin/") dialect can be distinguished by some certain features that aren't present in Standard Grekelin:

<i>(Go) tílko egy káve kia kebiszkótek, jzommo.</i><br>

<i>Pádi leleóttek lelészterek kiá memísek wewórtamek eís méltosagi kiá yógatek. Dedórizandek mí észeli kiá siníndiszi, kiá prépi ná ecszinálnamek á égy eís állila eís égy sélemi tá adérfiktas.</i>