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‘Romeyka’ The Ancient Greek Dialect Spoken in Northern Turkey

Romeyka is a dialect of Greek spoken by small communities in north-eastern Turkey, notable for its connection to the ancient Greek language ...
Radio France Internationale

Game of words seeks to revive fading Greek dialects

Whenever Marilena returns to Crete, it only takes a short spell with friends before her native island dialect kicks back in. But the 44-year-old mother of two knows that her young son and baby ...
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Learning Greek, speaking Cypriot: what’s wrong with a classroom in dialect?

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...
Prospect

Learning “Greek” in Ohio: the curious story of how immigration keeps old dialects alive

Like most children of immigrants, I grew up speaking a half-and-half combination of languages. My Dad was the only immigrant in his family to become fluent in English; aside from him, I had an ...
The Conversation

Speaking dialects trains the brain in the same way as bilingualism

Napoleon Katsos receives funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK, the Wiener - Anspach Foundation, Belgium and the Isaac Newton Trust, University of Cambridge. He is also affiliated ...
France 24

Game of words seeks to revive fading Greek dialects

Whenever Marilena returns to Crete, it only takes a short spell with friends before her native island dialect kicks back in. But the 44-year-old mother of two knows that her young son and baby ...