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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[im1hecticwog]

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.

[Adii Awana]

I am Pakistani..I Love so much greece and Greek People...Greece is a Beautifull country and Greek Language is Very Sweet Language..I Like it very Much

[Nesska Wytch]

I just wanted to put my input. As far as I know, even though Turkey is governmentally secular, last I heard, 95% of Turks are muslim, so it seems counterintuitive to me that these people who speak Romaeika in Turkey haven't become "Turkified" because they are muslim. There has to be a different reason.

[TheAnkleSam]

They are Turkish citizens, yes. But Turkey is not a Nation, is a State with many Nations. In fact, real Turks are just a small part of the total population of the country. You must accept that because is an important characteristic of Turkey.

Now, if you use as an argument the Trojan War, which was 3000 years ago, you give Greeks a step to complain against Turkey about their conquest from Ottoman Turks ´´just´´ 500 ys ago. About Alexander... I´m glad you consider him a Greek and not a Skopjian.

[John Jay]

No, it wouldn't be a civil war since Greece wasn't a nation at the time, but rather independent city-states and kingdoms who had their own government, economy, military, etc..... The Trojans were a Greek people as far as we know.

[AribethDeTyl]

Well this is not true, in 300 movie even Spartans comment about Greeks as a different people, may be you should write a complain for that also. Trojans were not Greeks and Macedonians are not Greeks as well.

[devilevily]

you really believe that....learn history first.....your troops defeated at sakarya afyon etc .....ı thınk you never heard population exchange too...

[ByzantineEmperor550]

Trojans were not Greeks. They were most likely part of a kingdom called Phrygia, but not Greeks at the time. If they were Greeks as you suggest, that would make the Trojan war a civil war, which it was not.

[KillerBee256]

No it didn't, Latin and Greek and many others come from a common source which is known to scholars as "Indo-European." Greek was also huge influence on Latin and it's descents because of magna grecia in Italy and later because the Roman republic annexed Greece. Greek was seen as the "educated language" for most of the Roman empire. Latin DID NOT come from Greek, that is like saying you came from your brother.

[tersinetersine]

you sure? in homer's illiad and odyssey, trojans believe in greek gods but homer didnt called them greek. even when greeks leave a wooden horse to trojans to ambush them; some of the leaders of the troy said "we dont trust GREEKS' gifts. do not let this horse to get inside the city". in my opinion, trojans wer not greeks. but greeks had entitled them according to their language. I dont know trojans are turkish or another but I think they werent greek.

[MrReoNetro]

It's Adem Ekiz, a native romeyka speaker and famous singer in Turkey (and Greece).