Cypriot Greek

Cypriot Greek
κυπριακή ελληνική
κυπριακά
Pronunciation[cipriaˈci elːiniˈci]
[cipriaˈka]
Native toCyprus
Rhodes, Greece
EthnicityGreek Cypriots
Native speakers
c. 700,000 in Cyprus (2011)[1][note 1]
Greek alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologcypr1249
Linguasphere56-AAA-ahg
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Cypriot Greek (Greek: κυπριακή ελληνική locally [cipriaˈci elːiniˈci] or κυπριακά [cipriaˈka]) is the variety of Modern Greek that is spoken by the majority of the Cypriot populace and Greek Cypriot diaspora. It is considered a divergent dialect as it differs from Standard Modern Greek[note 2] in various aspects of its lexicon,[2] phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and even pragmatics,[3] not only for historical reasons but also because of geographical isolation, and extensive contact with typologically distinct languages.[4]

  1. ^ "Statistical Service - Population Census 2011". www.mof.gov.cy.
  2. ^ Ammon 2006, p. 1886.
  3. ^ Themistocleous et al. 2012, p. 262.
  4. ^ Ammon 2006, pp. 1886–1887.


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