Back مسألة اللغة اليونانية Arabic Yunan dili məsələsi Azerbaijani Гръцки езиков въпрос Bulgarian Griechische Sprachfrage German Γλωσσικό ζήτημα Greek Cuestión lingüística griega Spanish پرسش زبان یونانی Persian Kreikan kielikiista Finnish Question linguistique grecque French שאלת השפה ביוון HE
The Greek language question (Greek: το γλωσσικό ζήτημα, to glossikó zítima) was a dispute about whether the vernacular of the Greek people (Demotic Greek) or a cultivated literary language based on Ancient Greek (Katharevousa) should be the prevailing language of the people and government of Greece. It was a highly controversial topic in the 19th and 20th centuries, and was finally resolved in 1976 when Demotic was made the official language. The language phenomenon in question, which also occurs elsewhere in the world, is called diglossia.