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historically Greek-speaking villages are Condofuri, Galliciano, Roccaforte del Greco, Roghudi, Bova and Bova Marina, which are in the Calabria region (the capital of which is Reggio). The Grecanic region, including Reggio, has a population of some 200,000, while speakers of the Griko dialect number fewer that 1,000 persons.
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has led to a phonological system in Modern Greek that is significantly different from that of Ancient Greek. Instead of the complex vowel system of Ancient Greek, with its four vowel-height levels, length distinction, and multiple diphthongs, Modern Greek has a simple system of five vowels. This came
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in 1923. Cappadocian Greek diverged from the other Byzantine Greek dialects earlier, beginning with the Turkish conquests of central Asia Minor in the 11th and 12th centuries, and so developed several radical features, such as the loss of the gender for nouns. Having been isolated from the crusader
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were used until 1982, when they were officially dropped from Greek spelling as no longer corresponding to the modern pronunciation of the language. Monotonic orthography is today used in official usage, in schools and for most purposes of everyday writing in Greece. Polytonic orthography, besides
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The Greek Italian community numbers some 30,000 and is concentrated mainly in central Italy. The age-old presence in Italy of Italians of Greek descent – dating back to Byzantine and Classical times – is attested to by the Griko dialect, which is still spoken in the Magna Graecia region. This
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vowel phonemes: becomes , becomes , and and are dropped. The dropped vowels' existence is implicit, and may affect surrounding phonemes: for example, a dropped palatalizes preceding consonants, just like an that is pronounced. Southern variants do not exhibit these phonological shifts.
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Demotic Greek comprises various regional varieties with minor linguistic differences, mainly in phonology and vocabulary. Due to the high degree of mutual intelligibility of these varieties, Greek linguists refer to them as "idioms" of a wider "Demotic dialect", known as "Koine Modern Greek"
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It is difficult to know how many ethnic Greeks there are in Albania. The Greek government, it is typically claimed, says there are around 300,000 ethnic Greeks in Albania, but most Western estimates are around the 200,000
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Today, a standardized variety of Demotic Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus, and is referred to as "Standard Modern Greek", or less strictly simply as "Greek", "Modern Greek", or "Demotic".
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in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic features of the modern language arose centuries earlier, having begun around the fourth century AD.
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Greco-Australian is an Australian-based dialect of Greek that is spoken by the Greek diaspora of Australia, including Greek immigrants living in Australia and Australians of Greek descent.
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in late antiquity and continuing through the Middle Ages. Griko and Demotic are mutually intelligible to some extent, but the former shares some common characteristics with Tsakonian.
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Greek script. Also, while Demotic Greek contains loanwords from Turkish, Italian, Latin, and other languages, these have for the most part been purged from Katharevousa. See also the
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is extremely rare, but could be heard in literary and scholarly words or when reading ancient texts (by a few readers); normally it retains its "original" pronunciation only in the
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due to ancient colonizations of the region. Pontic evolved as a separate dialect from Demotic Greek as a result of the region's isolation from the Greek mainstream after the
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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
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Varieties of Modern Greek include Demotic, Katharevousa, Pontic, Cappadocian, Mariupolitan, Southern Italian, Yevanic, Tsakonian and Greco-Australian.
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It has limited input from Hellenistic Koine and is significantly different from and not mutually intelligible with other Greek varieties (such as
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purposes, and in everyday use by some conservative writers and elderly people. The Greek Orthodox Church continues to use polytonic and the late
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Dawkins, Richard M. "The Pontic dialect of Modern Greek in Asia Minor and Russia". Transactions of the Philological Society 36.1 (1937): 15–52.
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to escape the then Muslim-dominated Crimea. Mariupolitan's main features have certain similarities with both Pontic (e.g. the lack of
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are still widely used, especially in writing and in more formal speech, as well as in some everyday expressions, such as the dative
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Modern Greek is written in the Greek alphabet, which has 24 letters, each with a capital and lowercase (small) form. The letter
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Greek online course "Greek by Radio" from Cyprus radio broadcasting CyBC in English, 105 lessons with Real audio files
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may be pronounced in some words ( before front vowels and before back ones). The pronunciation for the digraph
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and the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece have requested the reintroduction of polytonic as the official script.
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Modern Greek has developed a simpler system of grammatical prefixes marking tense and aspect of a verb, such as
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poems, Demotic Greek was the vernacular already before the 11th century and called the "Roman" language of the
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spoken in the modern era, including the official standardized form of the language sometimes referred to as
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The main distinguishing feature common to Northern variants is a set of standard phonological shifts in
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being used for older varieties of Greek, is still used in book printing, especially for academic and
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The Interrelation between the Right to Identity of Minorities and their Socio-economic Participation
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Because of the influence of Katharevousa, however, Demotic is not commonly used in its purest form.
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promoted in the 19th century at the foundation of the modern Greek state, as a compromise between
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Most of these features are shared with other languages spoken in the Balkan peninsula (see
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period and the beginning of Modern Greek is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the
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escaped these events and still reside in the Pontic villages of Turkey.) It derives from
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region, until most of its speakers were killed or displaced to modern Greece during the
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in green, with green dots indicating individual Cappadocian Greek villages in 1910.
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distinction in future tense between imperfective (present) and perfective (aorist)
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is largely unique, but several of the vowels can be spelt in multiple ways. Thus
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Modern Greek in Asia Minor. A study of dialect of Silli, Cappadocia and Pharasa
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tends to be pronounced further back than a prototypical velar, between a velar
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During most of the Modern Greek period, the language existed in a situation of
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additionally has a special final form. There are two diacritical symbols, the
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and modern Demotic. It was the official language of modern Greece until 1976.
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colonisers who re-introduced Greek language to the region, starting with
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varieties of Modern Greek that followed a common evolutionary path from
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The Greek vowel letters and digraphs with their pronunciations are:
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The following is a sample text in Modern Greek of Article 1 of the
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Psaron (in genitive) Street, historic island of the 1821 Revolution
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forms for certain verb forms (in particular the perfect tense)
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fragmented the Byzantine Empire into separate kingdoms (see
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Modern Greek consonants are plain (voiceless unaspirated)
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It has received significant Koine Greek influence through
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varieties, spoken by around 15 villages in the regions of
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
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respectively before vowels and voiced consonants, and
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about through a series of mergers, especially towards
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The distribution of major modern Greek dialect areas.
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