[Python] Python 3 Word Count by Unicode Language

I have texts that contain multiple languages in them. I want a word count that only records the words that occur with the Greek unicode character set using Python 3. Something like:

wordCount = 0
theText = open(file.txt, 'r')
for word in theText.split():
if GreekUnicodeCheck(word):
wordCount += 1
print(wordCount)


I have considered checking if a Greek letter is in every word like so:

wordCount = 0
theText = open(file.txt, 'r')
greekChars = ['α', 'β', 'γ', 'δ', 'ε', ...]
for word in theText.split():
if any(letter in word for letter in greekChars):
wordCount += 1
print(wordCount)


I think that should work, but the character set becomes quite large when you account for all the combinations of capitalization, diacritic marks, etc. (I'm working with Classical Greek). Is there a more elegant solution?

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