Dialect comparison

Cappadocian Greek vs Mariupolitan 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°
Mariupolitan Greek

Rumeika · Azov Greek

The Greek of the Mariupol region in Ukraine, descended from communities resettled from Crimea by Catherine the Great in 1778. Endangered; structurally close to Pontic Greek.

Approximate centre
47.10°, 37.55°

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