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Propositional objects > Greek language > Modern Greek > Modern Greek dialects > Cappadocian dialect

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1169Cappadocian dialect  

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Scope note

  • Cappadocian Dialect is a mixed language spoken in Cappadocia (Central Turkey) and areas of northern Greece. The language originally diverged from the Medieval Greek of the Byzantine Empire. The Cappadocian Greek rapidly shifted to Standard Modern Greek with plenty of Turkish words and morphosyntactic phenomena. It is related with the Pontic dialect and is believed to have been isolated from the rest of the Greek Language during the Ottoman domination as the various ethnicities (Greeks or others) who lived in Asia Minor gradually began to lose some language features, which have been replaced by the strong language of the country, Turkish.

Source

  • Costakis 1964
  • Dawkins 1916
  • Janse 2006
  • Κοντοσόπουλος 1994
  • Κωστάκης 1968
  • Κωστάκης 1977

Contributor

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

Creator

  • Karasimos Athanasios (AA)

Notation

  • 1169

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