The question is how did this dialect come up? Can you deny the fact that it came up from people who tried to adapt it to their own mother language? Can you deny the fact that the degree by which any dialect differs from the original language is actually the degree by which the ethnicity has degenerated?
Can you deny that you have no clue and you are talking bullshit?
All languages evolve over time and the original Greek is the Greek spoken many 1000s of years ago... not the dialect that they speak in Athens. The "standard" Greek is as far from ancient Greek as the Cypriot dialect is. In fact the Cypriot dialect might be closer to the original ancient Greek that the "standard" Greek.
Geminate consonants. Most Modern Greek varieties have lost the distinctively long (geminate) consonants found in Ancient Greek. However, the dialects of the south-eastern islands, including Cyprus, have preserved them, and even extended them to new environments such as word-initial positions. Thus, the word <ναι> 'yes' is pronounced with a distinctively long initial [nː] in Cypriot, and there are minimal pairs such as <φύλλο> [ˈfilːo] 'leaf' vs. <φύλο> [ˈfilo] 'gender', which are pronounced exactly the same in other dialects but distinguished by consonant length in Cypriot.
Final /n/. Most Modern Greek varieties have lost word-final -n, once a part of many inflectional suffixes of Ancient Greek, in all but very few grammatical words. The south-eastern islands have preserved it in many words (e.g. [ˈipen] vs. standard [ˈipe] he said; [tiˈrin] vs. standard [tiˈri] 'cheese').
... and Cypriot dialect is similar to other Greek dialects...
Palatalisation. Standard Greek has an allophonic alternation between velar consonants ([k], [ɡ], [x], [ɣ]) and palatalised counterparts (([c], [ɟ], [ç], [ʝ]) before front vowels (/i/, /e/). In southern dialects, the palatalisation goes further towards affricates (e.g. [tʃe] vs. standard [ce] 'and'). Subtypes can be distinguished that have either palato-alveolar ([tʃ], [dʒ], [ʃ], [ʒ]) or alveolo-palatal sounds ([tɕ], [dʑ], [ɕ], [ʑ]). The former are reported for Cyprus, the latter for Crete, among others.
inda? versus ti? In Standard Greek, the interrogative pronoun what? is ti. In most of the Aegean Islands (except at its geographical fringe: Rhodes in the south-east, Lemnos, Thasos and the Sporades in the north; and Andros in the west) as well as on Cyprus, it is inda.
Medial fricative deletion. Some dialects of the Aegean Islands, especially in the Dodecanese, have a tendency of deleting intervocalic voiced fricatives /v/, /ð/, /ɣ/ (e.g. [meˈalo] vs. standard [meˈɣalo] 'big')
(it is not mentioned in the article, but in Cypriot dialect it is also "mealo" and the "g" is not pronounced)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Modern_GreekNow look at some of today's figures. Do you know that the original GCs today-what I call Kypreoi are only 600K whereas the population is nearly one million? You may wonder what the remaining 400K are. Well at least half of them are Russians, Bulgarians Romanians etc. Most of them send their children to public schools. Within 20 years we will have a new additive of "GCs" who will be speaking "Greek" with another distorted accent. It's happening already! How long do you think will it take for all of them to be claiming they are Greek like Sotos does today?
If they want, in 2-3 generations max they will also be Greek and they will not have "another distorted accent". Their accent will be EXACTLY like the rest of us. Isn't this what happens EVERYWHERE?
