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Re: Greek, please!

Postby kimon07 » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:11 pm

alexISS wrote:
Get Real! wrote:There is no such thing as “Greeks of Cyprus” anymore than you can have “Turks of Spain”!

Once you move to a new country and start having children and grandchildren the new generations adopt the new country’s identity and culture, so the author is wrong in using such a description.


Yet you use the same argument you just rejected to "prove" that modern Greeks are not Greeks. Simply pathetic :lol:


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Re: Greek, please!

Postby repulsewarrior » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:20 pm

Paphitis wrote:
kimon07 wrote:
Paphitis wrote: And this certainly makes sense and explains why Cypriots still use the J phonetically within their speach to this day!


And the Cretans and the Dodecanesian and the Grecanoi of South Italy.

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/greek.htm


You can read about the origins of J right here Kimon!

So it's not Greek afterall, but Cypriot!

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


...interesting.
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