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[kurupetos]

Dunno what GR tried to prove with this thread, since we already knew GR is a charlie.

[Nikitas]

A lawyer sure, born inside the old walls of Nicosia, in Trypiotis.

It is understandable to want to claim a unique Cypriot language. Fact is that the words you listed are linguistically cognate with other languages. Can you give us some examples of words, and their phonetics, from the pre Hellenic period of Cyprus?

Paphitis, not only is the dialect of Dodecanisa near identical, they even have some identical village names, like Masari a well known Rodos village. That song should be evidence enough of linguistic dialect similarity

"Ti nychtan eperasamen
oi dio mazi antama
tzai kontepsa sto spiti mou
na strepso dihos prama"

Mainlanders would not understand the usage of kontepsa or strepso, their meanings are different now, but Cypriots use those words in the very same way, with the same pronunciation. As for prama, well, tell a mainlander that and see what he or she understands.




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[kurupetos]

^^ Any Greek, from any part of the world, with a good knowledge of Ancient Greek, can understand almost perfectly all Greek dialects, including the Cypriot one.

[Cap]

^^ Any Greek, from any part of the world, with a good knowledge of Ancient Greek, can understand almost perfectly all Greek dialects, including the Cypriot one.

Theoretically that is correct.
But try getting the Greek wannabe Balkan trash in Athens to understand any of it.
You see what I mean?

[GreekIslandGirl]

^^ Any Greek, from any part of the world, with a good knowledge of Ancient Greek, can understand almost perfectly all Greek dialects, including the Cypriot one.

Theoretically that is correct.
But try getting the Greek wannabe Balkan trash in Athens to understand any of it.
You see what I mean?

Maybe it's your South African accent that's causing the problem?

[DT.]

^^ Any Greek, from any part of the world, with a good knowledge of Ancient Greek, can understand almost perfectly all Greek dialects, including the Cypriot one.

Theoretically that is correct.
But try getting the Greek wannabe Balkan trash in Athens to understand any of it.
You see what I mean?

Balkan trash? Why so racist?

[Cap]

The mainlanders clearly are not Greek. Fake
maybe, like Gigs Scottish accent.

[Get Real!]

It looks like the "Mycenaean" supporters have done a runner…

[Oceanside50]

^^ Any Greek, from any part of the world, with a good knowledge of Ancient Greek, can understand almost perfectly all Greek dialects, including the Cypriot one.

I've used "Thoro" to see, a word of Ancient Greek origins and a mainlander didn't know it...but another Greek who studied Ancient Greek and taught it knew the word very well..and was amazed that a Cypriot would use it in everyday language...

[Nikitas]

Still cannot figure out the evidentiary value of that list of words.

Obviously our Hirokitian ancestors did not wear Pattalonia, the word came into use after the adoption of trousers in the 19th century as the main male garment, and in any case it was initially called Chattali.

Shipettos is also a uniquely Cypriot term, used only by us and no other Greek locality. Hardly a Cypriot word though, in Italian Schiopetto is a little explosion, and in the south of Italy, in their dialect, it is pronounnced Shopetto, from which we got Shipetto and in Spain it was corrupted to Escopeta and claimed as a "Basque" word by their equivalents of GR.

The use of an Italian word for shotgun in Cyprus is fascinating considering the Venetians left in 1571 and the word survived three hundred years of Ottoman presence. Fascinating also because in Greek they call it toufeki, or tsiftes (for double barreled shotguns), both Turkish words, and do not recognise the word shipettos. Strange also that we would retain a southern Italian word and not a northern, (Venetian or Genoan) one, there they call a shotgun doppietta.

The Mediterranean is probably not the best place to try to lay claim to racial or linguistic purity.