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GREEK TURKISH FRIENDSHIP!
The Turkish influence on Greek dialects varies. Turkish influences are comparatively small on standard Greek despite nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule. They are stronger on the Pontic Greek of northern Turkey (some Pontic Greek speakers also live near Athens and in Canada). The strongest Turkish and Turco-Persian influences were on Cappadocian Greek (extinct since the 1960's) which was spoken in a part of Turkey just north of the Syrian border. From the fourteenth century onward, Turkish seems to have had an influence on this type of Greek similar to the Norman French influence on English after the Conquest.
Two good books on this topic, if you can find them, are:
"Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics" by Sarah Grey Thomason & Terrence Kaufman (1988 University of California Press) and "Modern Greek in Asia Minor," by R.M. Dawkins, (1916 Cambridge
University Press).
GREEK TURKISH FRIENDSHIP!
The Turkish influence on Greek dialects varies. Turkish influences are comparatively small on standard Greek despite nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule. They are stronger on the Pontic Greek of northern Turkey (some P...
