Archaic Greek in a modern world

An endangered Greek dialect which is spoken in north-eastern Turkey has been identified by researchers as a "linguistic goldmine" because of its startling closeness to the ancient language, as Cambridge researcher Dr Ioanna Sitaridou explains.

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Education

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• endangered language
• Greek
• Greece
• Turkey
• Romeyka
• Pontus
• Cambridge

[im1hecticwog]

@erdal0 hold on a second buddy, the Trojans were Greeks. Troy was a city on the Asia Minor Coast. Back then, the "Greeks" were the Athenians. That was Greece. place like Troy, Sparta, Macedonia were Greek City States. They were like tribes. The people you see here aren't Turkish. They dnt speak any form of Turkish. Romaeika is effectively the bases or the foundations of the Greek language. From this the Greek language evolved. The reason they haven't been Turkified is because they are muslim.

[DNesij]

Atleast Turkey has not Turkified them like they did with most minorities.

[Sekerajmusic]

@im1hecticwog If I'm not mistaken, Wilusa (Troy) was a Hittite, not Greek, client state. Though, it did trade with Mycenaean Greece.

[MrReoNetro]

@Kohilakis yes but Pontic Greek has been influenced by contact with modern Greek through Greek language schools during the past 3 centuries at least. The people of the Of-valley are muslim and never went to Modern Greek schools. Thus, they retained more archaic form.

[Kohilakis]

What Romeika is she talking about? That is the Pontian Greek dialect. All the spoken Greek dialects used to be referred to as Romeika. Romeika is the language of the Romioi, i.e. the Greeks, all Greeks.

[andrenaliniHELLAS]

@cobone2 file mou giati eheis sto profil sou ellinoamerikaniki simea? eida poso agapas tin patrida mas k eisai oreos. alla.... amerikaniki??? giati? tha me voithiseis an apantiseis kapoia stigmi. ELLAS ELLINON

[SamsonElitsa]

Wow...... Finally something to link the Rum Millet as the true Heart of the Hellenic cause. Religion killed the oldest greatest cure to humanity!

[gzee9zpvvv]

@DNesij or killed

[lyoizisi]

@cobone2 FYROMS who are them ??? you should mention of Macedonians of Balkanian peninsula !!!

[cobone2]

@lyoizisi

Ohh i see your a Turk???Thta explains your versions of history,,Turkish history is as real and true as FYROMS history.

[kabouktli]

It is of no interest wether those people, or the Trojans, or anybody else, is/was of Greek origin. The fact is that they have inherited and preserved for countless generations a Greek culture.

In the areas of the ancient Greek colonies there were Greek colonists, hellenised locals, newcomers that were also hellenised, and newcomers that were not.

The old ladies may or may not have direct blood-link with the original colonists, who cares, but it's from them they inherited their language.

[MrReoNetro]

@im1hecticwog It's not known if they were Greeks or Luwians as far as I know. The Greeks did ofcourse hellenize Anatolia :)