"I Hellas snakker man gresk."

Translation: In Greece, one speaks Greek.

[vidaconvivial]

Does anyone know why Norwegian shares the greek word for their country but not for their language? Like I feel 'hellansk' would have worked

[fveldig]

'hellensk' is reserved for Ancient Greece.

[NilMarkas]

Ooh neat ^^ Does 'hellensk' also cover Mycenean Greek or is there another specific word for that as well?

[fveldig]

Apparently it's called 'mykensk'.

[NilMarkas]

Hmm, "mykensk," eh? Det er godt å vite ^^ Takk veldig mye for svaret ditt, mann.

[pgould3]

det er alt gresk for meg :)

[AlejandroS586382]

Just have to say that Hellas is quite glorious :)

[crispeeblathers]

I was expecting the word for greek to be hellensk or hellenisk

[vlada100bg]

I was just wondering, does the English translation sound natural?
"In Greece one speaks Greek"

[mprdo]

Vlada, yes. And there is a brief pause between "Greece" and "one". imagine a comma or apostrophe (,) to be there and it will flow quite smoothly. 5May18

[Bunchybunc]

Would it be wrong to say 'I Hellas, man snakker gresk'?

[pselkirk]

Yes, because of V2 - the phrase "i Hellas" is position 1, therefore the verb "snakker" must be in position 2. I don't think adding a comma changes that.

[Bunchybunc]

OK, thank you. :)