The Greek phrase ""Khalepa ta kala" means "Beauty is harsh". In Ancient Greek, the word for "beauty" echoes the very sound of "harsh".
Greek belongs to the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European language family, and is spoken by about 13 million people mainly in Greece and Cyprus, where it is an official language.
Greek is also recognised as a minority language in parts of Italy, and in Albania, Armenia, Romania and Ukraine.
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