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[boomerang]

We can go over the subtleties of what constitutes the real Cyprus - a backward north Paphos peasant village (like mine) where they speak Greek or a cosmopolitan town like Limassol where they speak ... erm ... English and Turkish and Arabic and erm ... erm ... as you said ... a few words of Greek!

By Jove, I think we have it ...

you have what?....kai kai kai... is this it?....we real cypriots say tjie...

yes the ones that wanted to show they spoke wannabe greek...we have words for these people...idan to vradjie tjie esxestikan...

the question here is, how many nappies do you carry with you?...

[Get Real!]

it could have been a kalamaristiko fig tree... a fig-ment of someones greek imagination...

It must’ve been the blue Figus-Spartakas variety!

[GreekIslandGirl]

I was born in a typical Greek-speaking Cyprus village.

But you don't know any Paphian so who is going to believe your story?

All my formative years were spent climbing fig trees and chasing goats.

The Cypriot Fig tree is the one tree you should NEVER climb because if you do you’ll end up in hospital from severe itching and in some cases nasty swelling of the face and neck. That milky shit it gives off is incredibly allergic to most people so I doubt you were climbing on them… LIAR!

I'm not a liar - because that's precisely why I used to climb them (as I may have mentioned on CF before) so that I would be allowed to go swimming afterwards to wash the sap off. A little 'tradition' among us peasant village kids!

BTW - there's no such thing as "Paphian" you Ozzie throwback.

Here's the link to when I first related the fig tree climbing excuse to swim in the sea ...

cyprus19328-10.html?

[Piratis]

If you bother to check the etymology of all these words you posted you will realise that most of them are Greek words, while the rest are Turkish, Italian, French, Arabic, or English ones.

I am sorry to inform you that there are no Cypriot words.

The following is a nice reference...

http://iolcos.gr/component/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.flypage_iolcos/product_id,362/category_id,34/manufacturer_id,14577/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,1/vmcchk,1/

Kurupetos is correct. Most of them are ancient Greek words with the addition of some foreign words, mostly from foreign occupiers (Italian, French, Turkish, English etc). There is nothing strange about this. For example there are tons of Greek words in the English language, and the Greeks have never even occupied England.

Our language is a Greek dialect, now and for 1000s of years. The Cypriot Syllabary was used to write Greek (in the ArcadoCypriot dialect, a dialect that was spoken in Cyprus and Arcadia in Peloponnesus) since about 1200BC.

We don't know what was the language that the prehistoric people in Cyprus spoke. Probably there was more than one language since different people came to Cyprus from different places (middle east, Anatolia etc) in different times. What is certain is that what those people spoke has absolutely nothing with the language we speak in Cyprus today and for the last several 1000 years. GR seems to have the impression that the people in Cyprus back then spoke the Cypriot dialect as we speak it today, which is not only incorrect, but totally ridiculous.

[boomerang]

it could have been a kalamaristiko fig tree... a fig-ment of someones greek imagination...

It must’ve been the blue Figus-Spartakas variety!

better be carefull here coz they'll start with the fig-ment was first brought to cyprus during the peaceful colonization of cyprus by the non existence back then, skirt wearing boy lover greeks...

[Get Real!]

We don't know what was the language that the prehistoric people in Cyprus spoke. Probably there was more than one language since different people came to Cyprus from different places (middle east, Anatolia etc) in different times. What is certain is that what those people spoke has absolutely nothing with the language we speak in Cyprus today and for the last several 1000 years. GR seems to have the impression that the people in Cyprus back then spoke the Cypriot dialect as we speak it today, which is not only incorrect, but totally ridiculous.

Another Kalamaras has arrived who thinks that everything ancient Cypriot must die and that everything “ancient Greek” (even though there never was such a place) must outlive everything else!

[Get Real!]

it could have been a kalamaristiko fig tree... a fig-ment of someones greek imagination...

It must’ve been the blue Figus-Spartakas variety!

better be carefull here coz they'll start with the fig-ment was first brought to cyprus during the peaceful colonization of cyprus by the non existence back then, skirt wearing boy lover greeks...

They could be mythological figs like everything else in their imaginary world…

[boomerang]

a lot of wannabe greeks today in cyprus are sufferers of the stockholm syndrome...

in a nutshell...

Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness

[Piratis]

We don't know what was the language that the prehistoric people in Cyprus spoke. Probably there was more than one language since different people came to Cyprus from different places (middle east, Anatolia etc) in different times. What is certain is that what those people spoke has absolutely nothing with the language we speak in Cyprus today and for the last several 1000 years. GR seems to have the impression that the people in Cyprus back then spoke the Cypriot dialect as we speak it today, which is not only incorrect, but totally ridiculous.

Another Kalamaras has arrived who thinks that everything ancient Cypriot must die and that everything “ancient Greek” (even though there never was such a place) must outlive everything else!

It is nothing but a fact that we don't even know what languages were brought to Cyprus by the settlers who came from Anatolia and the Middle east. What we speak today is a Greek dialect and this has been the case for several 1000 years. This is nothing but the plain facts.

I was born in Cyprus, same like my parents and all my ancestors as far back as I can possibly know about. The only time I have left Cyprus was for my university studies. Therefore I can speak the Greek Cypriot dialect in the standard way, with no accent. It seems you have some inferiority complex because you can't fit with other Cypriots. Instead of realizing that this is because you grew up abroad and therefore you are the one who is different from most Cypriots, you are trying to blame everybody else for your inability to fit in Cyprus.

[Get Real!]

We don't know what was the language that the prehistoric people in Cyprus spoke. Probably there was more than one language since different people came to Cyprus from different places (middle east, Anatolia etc) in different times. What is certain is that what those people spoke has absolutely nothing with the language we speak in Cyprus today and for the last several 1000 years. GR seems to have the impression that the people in Cyprus back then spoke the Cypriot dialect as we speak it today, which is not only incorrect, but totally ridiculous.

Another Kalamaras has arrived who thinks that everything ancient Cypriot must die and that everything “ancient Greek” (even though there never was such a place) must outlive everything else!

It is nothing but a fact that we don't even know what languages were brought to Cyprus by the settlers who came from Anatolia and the Middle east. What we speak today is a Greek dialect and this has been the case for several 1000 years. This is nothing but the plain facts.

Funny how your “facts” are always favoring Greece!

I was born in Cyprus, same like my parents and all my ancestors as far back as I can possibly know about. The only time I have left Cyprus was for my university studies. Therefore I can speak the Greek Cypriot dialect in the standard way, with no accent. It seems you have some inferiority complex because you can't fit with other Cypriots. Instead of realizing that this is because you grew up abroad and therefore you are the one who is different from most Cypriots, you are trying to blame everybody else for your inability to fit in Cyprus.

I’m not the one undermining Cyprus on a regular basis dear “Cypriot” from Kalamata, or maybe like Boomers says you’re just suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome because only an idiot would do that to his country!