Documentation and description of Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek)

Start - End 
2007 - 2008 (completed)
Department(s) 
Department of Linguistics
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Cappadocian
Asia Minor Greek
Language contact
Language variation
Turkish
Modern Greek
Endangered languages
Language change

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Abstract

Cappadocian (also known as Asia Minor Greek) is a Greek-Turkish mixed language thought to have died in the 1960s until its rediscovery in 2005. According to our present knowledge, there are an estimated several hundreds of native speakers and possibly another several hundreds of semi-speakers living in three villages near Thessaloniki (Northern Greece) and Larissa (Central Greece). The project aims to provide, with the collaboration of local community members, as comprehensive as possible a documentation of present day spoken Cappodocian, including digital recordings of every type of language usage, annotated descriptions, a sociolinguistic survey and a comprehensive grammar and dictionary.

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Dimitris Papazachariou

University of Patras

Angela Ralli

University of Patras