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Καλησπέρα. Καθόλου με την ίδια λογική. Αλλιώς χρησιμοποιείται η Κρητική διάλεκτος, με περισσότερη συχνότητα χρησιμοποιείται στην καθημερινότητα η Κυπριακή η οποία ουσιαστικά συγκρούεται με την Αττική (standard), αναμιγνύεται με πολλούς αγγλισμούς πλέον συν η προφορά, ο ρυθμός, η ταχύτητα με την οποία ομιλειται κτλ.

Sure. If you say so.

Nope. Not even similar. like both Italian and French came from Latin. Two different languages

@@fsisrael9224 Greek - Cypriot dialect is the Greek Language.. The same words, letters and Alphabet, the same civilization, the same History, the same National Anthem

@@fsisrael9224 Greek - Cypriot, it's a Greek dialec,,, is ain't an other language

Absolutely spot on. Greek Cypriot is based on koine, and retains quite a few archaic words and prononciations. Of course there are many words that have been loaned from Ottoman Turkish and Arabic, as well as Latin and English. That said, modern Greek has I feel more Turkish loan words than Cypriot Greek, if for no other reason the Cypriots were about 100 years less under Turkish rule than the mainland Greeks. Greek Cypriot is not a seperate language, and it would not take a mainland Greek long to adjust to Greek Cypriot.

@@Agamemnon1002 All good but a search on internet would say Cypriot greek has more loanwords than moderm standard greek. Cypriots lived closer in an island isolated from the world so this theory of less occupied years is not applicable to the reality since Turkish Cypriots and Greek cypriots became bilingual in short time and this led to the exchange of daily words in short time and even customs.

@@nonamenoname2767 I take your point, and would agree that 300 or 400 years under Ottoman rule would not make much of a difference in terms of loan words. Turkish Cypriots in the main tended to be bilingual in terms of Greek and Turkish. For a few Greek Cypriot tended to be their main language, whereas Greek Cypriots did in general speak Turkish. Although I am Greek Cypriot my grandfather spoke Turkish because he lived in Istanbul beforer being expelled. As far as who has the most loan words, I am only going by my experience of visiting Greece, where in the beginning there were many words that I did not understand which I found were of Ottoman Turkish origin. The village my family came from was not a mixed village, so it could be that we had less exposed to Turkish on a daily basis. Therefore, my comment is hardly "scientific". Thanks for our response.

@@Agamemnon1002 I here have to again say that Turkish cypriots spoke their own specific dialect with different words remaining from both Ottoman period , Rumca (Cypriot Greek) and other borrowed words even a few italian words which are not used in Turkiye plus they have a distinct grammar sometimes not easy to understand to a turkophone who had never exposed to it before, the same applies to Cypriot Greek as well. Interesting fact about this two community is there were both mixed villages and mostly Greek and mostly Turkish villages in Cyprus, until after the break of the intercommunal ethnic tensions towards the end of the english colonisation. Even not spoken fluently by each other, everybody understood what the other says in their own language, a small island with three languages Greek Turkish and English continued for enough time to exchange the words. For example in Cypriot Greek , kanceli means kancali in Turkish means a hook, used to describe a garden door hook shaped closer, so many more words that I cannot count here which are not found in modern Greek. There are scientific articles about them. Another fact is this symbiosis of two different languages is very close to today so their effect is still there in Cypriot villages but not in the cities where standard Istanbul Turkish and Dimotic Greek is the prevalent and a la mode profora.

I think you are correct and raise interesting points regarding identity, politics and standardization! Γειά σας!!

Muchísimas gracias hermano. ¡Me alegro mucho!

What?

Τους χαιρετισμούς μου φίλε. Να περνάς όμορφα!

That's an interesting piece of information to know, buddy. Thank you!

@@-passpandoo-bygeorgiosgkar1667 Thanks for the video..wow being succinct is not my skills 😉

@@22poopoo Well, the ability to explain yourself is a skill of a well-rounded person!

@@-passpandoo-bygeorgiosgkar1667 🧡

@@olbiomoiros WoW but don't be sorry. i love it 👍 the reason i ask. is because me family is from Tarsus/Tarsos Mersin. and me grand dads family did speak some form of old Greek. they did understand Cypriot Greek & new Greek. and i wonder why they did speak it ??? am i a left over part Greek from the Ancient times ???

@@olbiomoiros Yeah i know that place. it's fascinating but a mystery. me aunt lives in Cyprus. her husband is half Greek half Turkish. and he always wanted to marry me aunt. he did know that me grand fathers family did speak old Greek. funny thing is that Italians think i look like old Greek. there are many people in Turkey that are part Greek and/or part Italian.

What a priceless comment. I must agree but not because of obvious reasons. Greek is sensual, captivating and well, you said it!

Sure! Stay tuned, buddy 👌

I agree on the last point!

@@D19DMO128D ive never researched whatever you spoke of, my first time hearing it. Dialect as you described it exists for all Greek islands not just Cyprus. They also have their own words that is not domestic Greek. A good example would be Cypriots Cretans and The people of the island Rhodes for example.. Three similar but different dialects with words that vary from domestic Greek that is unique to each island. How do you explain that?

@@MrBelvedere-c5f Tell him because i think he knows nothing ...!!! First there are not arabic words only one pattixa /karpouzi (which is turkish word) Cyprus was never really occupied by the arabs like was lets say Crete.....!! Italian words there are and also French (from the 400 years crusadors occupation)There are many old Greek words if you go to the villages in Pafos they speak Mycenien !!! Thorw.lalw.sintixanw,anakakaw , lamnw,i de mi, apo keithen merou, Pothen ,inta, ipotaktiki lalousin...!!!! Ornitha,strouthos,limpouros,apopatos.emou,esou,poskepase,aggia,maxomai, and many many others and of course the double simfwna and the n at the end like the OLD GREEK.!!!!!!!!!!So dont say things without reading the history !!!! CYPRUS HAS LESS TURKISH WORDS THAN MOST GREEK DIALECTS BECAUSE THEY HANE BEEN OCCUPIED BY THE TURKS FOR ONLY 300 YEARS NOT 500 LIKE THE NORTH OF GREECE....!!!! LONG LIFE TO ALL GREEKS PLACES !!! LONG LIFE TO MOTHER GREECE AND TO THE DAUGHTER CYPRUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Low score on Modern Greek language do the students in Greece too, unfortunately! This is the failure of the school system (teaching methods, manuals etc.)...

I agree with you the low score is failure of education system I arrived in Cyprus at age of 12 from Africa 1 years later In was scoring better than my schoolmate in nea ellinika.

I'm extremely glad if we managed to help someone in getting better. Let us know how it goes!!

This is definitely something I'm going to look up. All I knew about Rhodes was that people who live in the villages speak in a similar way. Thank you loads!

@@-passpandoo-bygeorgiosgkar1667 Cypriots from Paphos moved there sometime during the Ottoman Period and especially older people still speak like Paphos people in the Cypriot dialect. Also, their famous icon, Panagia Tsampika, was brought there from Kykkos Monastery.

Εγώ αντιθέτως σαν Γιαννιώτης που βρίσκομαι στο άλλο ακρο της χώρας, δυσκολεύομαι αρκετά να καταλάβω κυπριακά 😂

Εδώ είμαστε φίλε, να βοηθήσουμε. Χαιρετισμούς στα εντυπωσιακά Ιωάννινα!

There is an area in Rhodes which speak a very close dialect to ours.

Η γλώσσα είναι οι ρίζες μας, ο πολιτισμός μας, η ιστορία μας, η παιδεία μας!

ΔΕΝ είναι βόρεια Μακεδονία διότι είναι Βουλγαροι, αλβανοι, αθιγγανοι και τούρκοι

¡Un abrazo fuerte hacia mi amado México!

it's too close to standard greek to be a different language. It's just a dialect

Really funny.

​@@TMPOUZIit depends. In its heaviest form whole sentences can be indistinguishable. Different grammar, syntax etc etc. Depends what form it is spoken. Scots is classed as a separate language from English. But kypriaka is further from standard Greek than English is to Scots.

No such things as Cypriot language. Its a Greek dialect.

I am Greek, and none of those that you mentioned are different languages…they are all Regional Greek Dialects 👍

@@SpartanLeonidas1821 I am sorry but they are different languages and you can not understand them. If Spanish is not a dialect of Italian then Pontic and Capadocian are not the dialects of Greek. Stay safe

@@Kurdedunaysiri Nah, they are 100% Dialects of Greek and I easily understand them, as do most Greeks! 😃

@@SpartanLeonidas1821 you understand the words here just like Slavic and Italic people understand the words of each other’s languages but when they are spoken they are not intelligible to others. I love Hellenic languages and linguistics so I read and talked with people a lot about that. I did not see one single Greek person told me that they understand the video of Pontians from Tonia, Trapezounda while they are having a conversation in Pontic. Misiotic does not have gramatical genders like Pontic, Tsakonian and Greek. And since Turkey and Greece do not give a shit about them they all are disappearing.

@@Kurdedunaysiri No, I understand them as much as I understand Cretans. It’s a dialect of Greek. I grew up around only Cypriots & have also visited there many times. Do you speak Greek? I also study linguistics, it’s what I do as part of my work.

Hi Mark (judging from your nickname on YT). I'm glad you liked the video and hopefully it can serve as a complementary "lesson" for you to build up your vocabulary! Just bear in mind that a lot of the expressions mentioned in the video are not widely used nor written, not even from native Cypriot speakers even though most of them will understand the meaning! Good luck on your journey, Greek language is a linguistic work of art worth your attention!

Does it? Interesting to know!