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[Nikitas]

Vazanopitta? Is this a Lemithou recipe Ray or are you pulling our virtual leg?

[iceman]

Cypriot language quick question

There is no such thing as a Cypriot language.
Its either Greek (which is more common) or Turkish.

there is cypriot, the greek we speak in the south spesially if you speak xwrkatika greece people dont understand it...

there is cypriot and for those who hate speaking cypriot they use proper greek, not or turkish

Bullshit...You use Greek alphabet,you write in Greek and speak Greek in a different way to Greeks do in mainland Greece...
There is no such language called "Cypriot" on the face of the earth!!!
Your politicians registered Greek as the language of Cyprus when Entering EU...why didnt they register it as "Cypriot"?

show me "Cypriot" in the following list
http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/languageList.html

or this one
http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/ ... ex_en.html

or maybe in the EU countries language list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_ ... pean_Union

[Sotos]

Cypriot is dialect not language. But we have some words that are not from Greek or even Turkish but from Latin, English or other languages that they don't use in Greece. Like tsaera from chair for example! And also in Cypriot dialect we use many ancient Greek words that they stopped using in Greece many centuries ago!!

[Sotos]

Vazanopitta? Is this a Lemithou recipe Ray or are you pulling our virtual leg?

I think Ray is lavazanis

[iceman]

Cypriot is dialect not language. But we have some words that are not from Greek or even Turkish but from Latin, English or other languages that they don't use in Greece. Like tsaera from chair for example! And also in Cypriot dialect we use many ancient Greek words that they stopped using in Greece many centuries ago!!

Our Turkish is the same Sotos..the Turkish us TC's speak have loads of words from Latin,Greek & even Arabic..When two TC's talk to each other if they want a mainland Turk cannot understand what they are talking about...
But our dialects (GC/TC) have been degenerated in the last couple of decades...Unfortunately,television transmissions from both Greece & Turkey played a crucial part in this...

[Sotos]

Cypriot is dialect not language. But we have some words that are not from Greek or even Turkish but from Latin, English or other languages that they don't use in Greece. Like tsaera from chair for example! And also in Cypriot dialect we use many ancient Greek words that they stopped using in Greece many centuries ago!!

Our Turkish is the same Sotos..the Turkish us TC's speak have loads of words from Latin,Greek & even Arabic..When two TC's talk to each other if they want a mainland Turk cannot understand what they are talking about...
But our dialects (GC/TC) have been degenerated in the last couple of decades...Unfortunately,television transmissions from both Greece & Turkey played a crucial part in this...

true. some time ago I was reading somewhere that many languages will disappear soon. If languages are disappearing then don't expect dialects that are spoken by so few people to last for long! I give Cyprus dialects another 50 years max!!

[miltiades]

I wonder if the mainland Greeks would understand this "Cypriot " O TITSIROS TSIO ANAVRAKOTOS IEN TO VRAGHIN TSIE SHESTIKEN " !!
The Cypriot dialect is without a doubt a colourfull and expressive " language" I aggree with Iceman that there is no such language as the Cypriot language , but there is without a doubt a very rich Cypriot dialect called in Greek
TA KIPRIAKA , AS IN " RE , NA MOU SINDIHANIS KIPRIAKA OI KALAMARISTIKA GAMO TO TCHERATO SOU MESA "
Here is one of my favourites: ETSI KKELLE ETSI XCHURAFI HELI " No mainland Greek would understand this either:
STROSTIN GARGOLA TCHE VARTON NA PPESI LALO SOU RE GINEKA ATE NAUMEN A !

[SSBubbles]

I wonder if the mainland Greeks would understand this "Cypriot " O TITSIROS TSIO ANAVRAKOTOS IEN TO VRAGHIN TSIE SHESTIKEN " !!
The Cypriot dialect is without a doubt a colourfull and expressive " language" I aggree with Iceman that there is no such language as the Cypriot language , but there is without a doubt a very rich Cypriot dialect called in Greek
TA KIPRIAKA , AS IN " RE , NA MOU SINDIHANIS KIPRIAKA OI KALAMARISTIKA GAMO TO TCHERATO SOU MESA "
Here is one of my favourites: ETSI KKELLE ETSI XCHURAFI HELI " No mainland Greek would understand this either:
STROSTIN GARGOLA TCHE VARTON NA PPESI LALO SOU RE GINEKA ATE NAUMEN A !

As I learn 'Ellinika'. would you care to expand on your 'Kipriaka' please Milt and translate for us?

[DT.]

I wonder if the mainland Greeks would understand this "Cypriot " O TITSIROS TSIO ANAVRAKOTOS IEN TO VRAGHIN TSIE SHESTIKEN " !!
The Cypriot dialect is without a doubt a colourfull and expressive " language" I aggree with Iceman that there is no such language as the Cypriot language , but there is without a doubt a very rich Cypriot dialect called in Greek
TA KIPRIAKA , AS IN " RE , NA MOU SINDIHANIS KIPRIAKA OI KALAMARISTIKA GAMO TO TCHERATO SOU MESA "
Here is one of my favourites: ETSI KKELLE ETSI XCHURAFI HELI " No mainland Greek would understand this either:
STROSTIN GARGOLA TCHE VARTON NA PPESI LALO SOU RE GINEKA ATE NAUMEN A !

As I learn 'Ellinika'. would you care to expand on your 'Kipriaka' please Milt and translate for us?

Hhate Lamne Ra esou pou thahame.

[alexISS]

I wonder if the mainland Greeks would understand this "Cypriot " O TITSIROS TSIO ANAVRAKOTOS IEN TO VRAGHIN TSIE SHESTIKEN " !!
The Cypriot dialect is without a doubt a colourfull and expressive " language" I aggree with Iceman that there is no such language as the Cypriot language , but there is without a doubt a very rich Cypriot dialect called in Greek
TA KIPRIAKA , AS IN " RE , NA MOU SINDIHANIS KIPRIAKA OI KALAMARISTIKA GAMO TO TCHERATO SOU MESA "
Here is one of my favourites: ETSI KKELLE ETSI XCHURAFI HELI " No mainland Greek would understand this either:
STROSTIN GARGOLA TCHE VARTON NA PPESI LALO SOU RE GINEKA ATE NAUMEN A !

Let me give it a shot...

" O TITSIROS TSIO ANAVRAKOTOS IEN TO VRAGHIN TSIE SHESTIKEN "
Ο γυμνός και ο ξεβράκωτος είδε το βρακί και χέστηκε

ETSI KKELLE ETSI XCHURAFI HELI
Τέτοιο κεφάλι τέτοιο ξυράφι θέλει

STROSTIN GARGOLA TCHE VARTON NA PPESI LALO SOU RE GINEKA ATE NAUMEN A !
Στρώσε το κρεβάτι και βάλτον να κοιμηθεί σου λέω ρε γυναίκα άντε να πούμε ντε!

You see, it takes a few days (if not hours) of socializing with Cypriots for a mainlander to understand the dialect, how long does a Turk or an Englishman need?