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[Paphitis]

There was a discussion on this on TV . If anyone considers what he is taught at school and what he speaks at home or at work its two different languages with different words not the same - . At school you use the DImotiki but at home or with friends you use your own languages not the one who is taught at school . this is the distorrted version of our language.

I dont know any Cypriot who use at home or in cafes the language with same as he is taught at school unless of course he lives in another planet . At home he use a mixture of words including arabic italian , turkish and many more other foreign words. we have thousands of foreign words in our own languages that does not appear in the greek language.

This is the stupidity of our system which uses two rules and two set of histories to explain the people on this island . and its not a suprise that we are divided its this attitude that brought the partition of the island. Well Done no other country on this planet could have achieved this ..we are unique in everything we do.

Well said Mikkio, those who seek to impose or support a Demotic Greek Meaningless Pollocks Language on CY will fail in their state-controlling ways, they are facing an impossible task cos things always revert to the Kibreika.....

Kibreika je Zivania

We have moved on from this hideous inbred manifestation.

Only a very small part of the dialect is maintained by most Cypriots who have gone through some form of modernization and education!

The only Cypriots that speak 'Kybreika' are the older generations who mostly are illiterate and have not been fortunate enough to get a High School education.

Cypriots are now the cosmopolitan cafe latte sophisticated post modernist types and ' Kybreika' has no place in modern Cyprus other than in some Fiffiri comedy sketches!

[Piratis]

There was a discussion on this on TV . If anyone considers what he is taught at school and what he speaks at home or at work its two different languages with different words not the same - . At school you use the DImotiki but at home or with friends you use your own languages not the one who is taught at school . this is the distorrted version of our language.

I dont know any Cypriot who use at home or in cafes the language with same as he is taught at school unless of course he lives in another planet . At home he use a mixture of words including arabic italian , turkish and many more other foreign words. we have thousands of foreign words in our own languages that does not appear in the greek language.

This is the stupidity of our system which uses two rules and two set of histories to explain the people on this island . and its not a suprise that we are divided its this attitude that brought the partition of the island. Well Done no other country on this planet could have achieved this ..we are unique in everything we do.

Well said Mikkio, those who seek to impose or support a Demotic Greek Meaningless Pollocks Language on CY will fail in their state-controlling ways, they are facing an impossible task cos things always revert to the Kibreika.....

Kibreika je Zivania

We have moved on from this hideous inbred manifestation.

Only a very small part of the dialect is maintained by most Cypriots who have gone through some form of modernization and education!

The only Cypriots that speak 'Kybreika' are the older generations who mostly are illiterate and have not been fortunate enough to get a High School education.

Cypriots are now the cosmopolitan cafe latte sophisticated post modernist types and ' Kybreika' has no place in modern Cyprus other than in some Fiffiri comedy sketches!

The Cypriot dialect is not hideous or inbred. However with globalization and modern technologies the diversity of languages and dialects is gradually reduced. Most dialects and even whole languages which are spoken by a small number of people today will probably disappear in some decades.

[Gasman]

Cypriots are now the cosmopolitan cafe latte sophisticated post modernist types

I'll just pop down to the cafe on the corner here where all the old duffers are drooling over their backgammon (some of them actually asleep at the tables - bless 'em) and tell them that!

[Mikiko]

A dialect can become a separate language in the long run. The American language has not become a separate language overnight.

Cypriots use their own language at home as they express themselves better compared to that faulty language that has been imported from abroad. Why no one is using this language Dimotiki at home? This does not happen in other countries as what they are taught at school they use at home too.

When I was a kid I had a problem to write an essay in Greek Dimotiki and I had to think five times to write a small sentence it was like a puzzle.

[Omer Seyhan]

I propose a common alphabet for both Cypriot-Greek and Cypriot-Turkish which we can call the Cypriot alphabet .

A Cypriot Alphabet already exists...

http://www.ancientscripts.com/cypriot.html

...and did so WAY before anything Turkish or Greek existed.

I like the look of this alphabet, thanks for that...

[Mikiko]

The only Cypriots that speak 'Kybreika' are the older generations who mostly are illiterate and have not been fortunate enough to get a High School education.

Kypreika - Cypriot does not mean language they used to speak in old villages 1000 years ago . Its the language you currently use to communicate in your daily life . And it can change with new words and phrases as time progress. With so many foreigners who come to live you wont be suprised in the future If you find other words from these parts of the world.

[Paphitis]

A dialect can become a separate language in the long run. The American language has not become a separate language overnight.

Cypriots use their own language at home as they express themselves better compared to that faulty language that has been imported from abroad. Why no one is using this language Dimotiki at home? This does not happen in other countries as what they are taught at school they use at home too.

When I was a kid I had a problem to write an essay in Greek Dimotiki and I had to think five times to write a small sentence it was like a puzzle.

There is no such thing as an American, Australian, or Canadian language. English is their language. Sure, they have their own unique dialect complete with some unusual and unique words and euphamisms, but they are not languages in their own right and never will be!

The same holds true for the Cypriot dialect.