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- Greeklish, a portmanteau of the words Greek and English, also known as Grenglish, Latinoellinika/Λατινοελληνικά or ASCII Greek, is the Greek language written using the Latin alphabet. Unlike standardized systems of Romanization of Greek, as used internationally for purposes such as rendering Greek proper names or place names, or for bibliographic purposes, the term Greeklish mainly refers to informal, ad-hoc practices of writing Greek text in environments where the use of the Greek alphabet is technically impossible or cumbersome, especially in electronic media. Greeklish was commonly used on the Internet when Greek people communicate by forum, e-mail, IRC, instant messaging and occasionally on SMS, mainly because older operating systems didn't have the ability to write in Greek, or in a unicode form like UTF-8. Nowadays most Greek-related content appears in native Greek. Sometimes, the term Greeklish is also used informally for a non-standard language variety used by bilingual speakers of English and Greek, i.e. Greek with heavy admixture of English words or vice versa.
- Mit dem Kofferwort Greeklish wird die lateinschriftliche Transkription bzw. Transliteration des Griechischen in der Internet- und Handy-Kommunikation bezeichnet. Der Begriff umfasst auch den dazugehörigen Netzjargon, also die sprachlichen Eigenheiten dieser Kommunikationsform. Weitere Namen für das Greeklish sind engl. Grenglish und ASCII Greek sowie griech. Latinoellinika (Λατινοελληνικά ‚Latinogriechisch‘) und Frangolevandinika (Φραγκολεβαντίνικα, eigentlich ‚Frankolevantinisch‘, etwa im Sinne von ‚westöstlich‘). Greeklish wird gewöhnlich im Internet in der griechischsprachigen Kommunikation via E-Mail, IRC und Instant Messaging sowie für den SMS-Verkehr mit Mobiltelefonen verwendet.
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