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Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet. Please feel free to subscribe to see more of this. I hope you have a great day! Stay happy! Please support me on Patreon! If you are interested to see your native language/dialect to be featured here. Submit your recordings to crystalsky0124@. Looking forward to hearing from you! Special Thanks to Κωνσταντίνος Χρυσοστόμου Cypriot Greek (κυπριακή ελληνική) Native to: Cyprus Ethnicity: Greek Cypriots Native speakers: c. 700,000 in Cyprus (2011) Language family: Indo-European (Greek) is the variety of Modern Greek that is spoken by the majority of the Cypriot populace and Greek Cypriot diaspora. It is considered a divergent variety as it differs from Standard Modern Greek in various aspects of its lexicon, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and even pragmatics, not only for historical reasons, but also because of geographical isolation, different settlement patterns, and extensive contact with typologically distinct languages. Cypriot Greek is not an evolution of ancient Arcadocypriot Greek, but derives from Byzantine Medieval Greek. It has traditionally been placed in the southeastern group of Modern Greek varieties, along with the dialects of the Dodecanese and Chios (with which it shares several phonological phenomena). Though Cypriot Greek tends to be regarded as a dialect by its speakers, it is unintelligible to speakers of Standard Modern Greek without adequate prior exposure. Greek-speaking Cypriots are diglossic in the vernacular Cypriot Greek (the “low“ variety) and Standard Modern Greek (the “high“ variety). Cypriot Greek is itself a dialect continuum with an emerging koine. Davy, Ioannou & Panayotou (1996) have argued that diglossia has given way to a “post-diglossic [dialectal] continuum [...] a quasi-continuous spread of overlapping varieties“.
