Dialect comparison

Cappadocian Greek vs Cretan Greek

Compare two dialects of Greek side by side — where they're spoken, what they're called, and how they relate.

Cappadocian Greek

The Greek of inner Anatolia, isolated for centuries before the 1923 population exchange brought its speakers to Greece. Heavily Turkic-influenced; once thought extinct but rediscovered in central Greece in the 2000s.

Approximate centre
39.36°, 21.92°
Cretan Greek

The Greek of Crete. The literary medium of the late-medieval Cretan Renaissance and the basis of a long oral and musical tradition.

Approximate centre
35.34°, 25.14°

Keep exploring

Read the full picture of Greek and the dialects within it.