Viggen Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 Greek linguist, Ioanna Sitaridou, located a population of people in Northeastern Turkish villages, near the Black Sea (or Pontus), speaking the Romeyka dialect of ancient Greek. Ancient Greek has not been in use for thousands of years, so a finding like this can give us a bit of insight into how the language sounded.... read the full article (including video) at Antrophology.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melvadius Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 Apparently a slightly longer version of this story appeared in ekathimerini on 5 January 2011: Rare Greek dialect alive in Turkey A Greek professor of linguistics at Cambridge University has been credited with identifying an endangered Greek dialect which is spoken in a remote mountainous region in northeastern Turkey and is believed to be a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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