How close is Greek to Italian?

Greek and Italian, although both belonging to the Indo-European language family, are very different. Italian is a Romance language whereas Greek is Hellenic, meaning that they're only very distantly related. Greek grammar is completely different from Italian, and it uses another alphabet altogether.



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