China is now the biggest potato producer, and almost a third of all potatoes is harvested in China and India. Asia and Europe are the world's major potato producing regions, accounting for more than 80 percent of world production in 2007.
The one official language of Greece is Modern Greek. Ancient Greek was spoken in ancient times. Many changes and simplifications have occured to Ancient Greek to form today's Modern Greek. The Jewish minority speaks Ladino. The Muslim minority speaks Bulgarian, Romani, or Turkish. Other minority languages are Albanian, Macedonian, and Romanian.
Language. Language constitutes one of the most important elements of the Greek culture. Modern Greek language is a descendant of the Ancient Greek language and is affiliated to the part of the Greek or Hellenic branch of Indo-European.The first written Greek was found on baked mud tablets, in the remains of the Knossos Palace of Crete island.eographically Greece is a mountainous peninsula surrounded by water. Due to the 13,676 km of coastline and the 2,000 Greek islands, of which only 168 are inhabited, the Greeks developed since the ancient times a strong connection with the sea.