Greek
Greek is documented on Dialect Atlas across 8 dialects, including Cappadocian Greek, Cretan Greek, Cypriot Greek.
Dialects of Greek
- Cappadocian GreekThe 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.
- Cretan GreekThe Greek of Crete. The literary medium of the late-medieval Cretan Renaissance and the basis of a long oral and musical tradition.
- Cypriot GreekKypriakiThe Greek of Cyprus, distinct from Standard Modern Greek in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Preserves a number of medieval features.
- GrikoItaliot Greek · Salentino GreekThe Greek of southern Italy, spoken in two enclaves in Salento and Calabria. A direct descendant of the Magna Graecia varieties; one of the oldest continuously-spoken Greek varieties outside Greece.
- Mariupolitan GreekRumeika · Azov GreekThe 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.
- Pontic GreekRomeyka · PontiakaThe Greek variety historically spoken along the Pontic coast of the Black Sea, brought to mainland Greece by refugees of the 1923 population exchange. Its Anatolian-resident form (Romeyka) survives among Muslim communities near Trabzon.
- Standard Modern GreekDemotic GreekThe Athens-based standard of modern Greek, derived from the Demotic vernacular and codified in the late 20th century.
- TsakonianTsakonikaThe only living descendant of ancient Doric Greek, spoken in a few villages of the Peloponnese around Leonidio. Critically endangered; structurally distinct from all other Greek varieties, which descend from Attic-Ionic.
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